Location: Hippy Haven

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The Community of St Stephen n Critters is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its restrictive gun laws. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 17.978 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Social Welfare. The average income tax rate is 100%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Dog breeding has been banned in accordance with recent animal experimentation laws, people take government jobs for the frequent flier miles, kids laugh off vandalism and arson as "just fun", and organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region. Crime is totally unknown. St Stephen n Critters's national animal is the Dancing Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Jerry Berry.

St Stephen n Critters is ranked 1st in Hippy Haven and 57th in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 74 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and