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“We may be small but small is powerful!”

The Queendom of Snowelia is a small, safe nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate population of 36 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 Law & Order, Education, and Defence. The average income tax rate is 52%, 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 Woodchip Exports.

The latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, meat is a luxury afforded only to the wealthy, the grey gibbon is a protected species, and corporations donate huge sums of money to favored politicians. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. Snowelia's national animal is the grey gibbon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the adorro.

Snowelia is ranked 1st in the region and 29,039th in the world for Highest Unemployment Rates.