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The John Lennon Utopia of Strawberrry Fields is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by John Lennon with a fair hand, and renowned for its unlimited-speed roads. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 8.128 billion are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

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. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Imagine City Peacetopia. The average income tax rate is 98%. 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.

The nation is currently revamping its entire education system, anti-government web sites are springing up, consuming ecstasy is a common rite of passage, and the death penalty has been reintroduced. Crime is totally unknown. Strawberrry Fields's national animal is the Walrus, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Brotherhood of the Walrus, and its currency is the Strawberry.

Strawberrry Fields is ranked 11th in Hippy Haven and 2,745th in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 30 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and