Location: SkyRUM

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The Keg-parachuting Cargo Planes of SkyRUM is a massive, devout nation, ruled by Baba Rum Dass with an even hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 4.006 billion enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of SkyRUM City. The average income tax rate is 53%, and even higher for the wealthy. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Information Technology.

The Flying St Bernard is a protected species, political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations, UFO sightings are listed daily in the morning news, and drunk drivers are sent to rehabilitation paid for by the government. Crime is totally unknown. SkyRUM's national animal is the Flying St Bernard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Floating Keg.

SkyRUM is ranked 1st in SkyRUM and 18,939th in the world for Most Pacifist, scoring 59 on the Lennon-Springsteen Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and