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“Love as thou wilt.”

The Queendom of Sidonie de la Courcel is a huge, economically powerful nation, remarkable for its absence of drug laws. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 390 million have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Defence. The average income tax rate is 36%, but much higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Gambling industries.

Retirement homes are often fitted with luxurious suites, only adults may purchase violent video games, frequent fliers are obliged to submit to invasive security procedures by government security, and the national government has been dissolved by revolutionary insurgents. Crime is moderate. Sidonie de la Courcel's national animal is the lamb, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the gold coin.

Sidonie de la Courcel is ranked 1549th in the region and 50,338th in the world for Largest Basket Weaving Sector.