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The Holy Rock Cathedral of Skillet is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by John Cooper with a fair hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.016 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Religion & Spirituality, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Panhead City. The average income tax rate is 77%. A very small private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

The military frequently holds bake sales to raise funds, the nanny industry has had a boom after maternity leave was recently banned, cars are banned, and public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Skillet's national animal is the Monster, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Christiany, and its currency is the Frying Pan.

Skillet is ranked 1,183rd in Balder and 61,913th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 18 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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