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The Free Land of The Despair is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Julius Julius with a fair hand, and renowned for its absence of drug laws. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.197 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Utopia. The average income tax rate is 100%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising fourteen-year-old boys selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

The government has ordered a moratorium on referenda, tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests, the government is spending millions on renovating the public transportation system, and the average commuter spends four hours a day driving to and from work. Crime is totally unknown. The Despair's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the utopal.

The Despair is ranked 3rd in the region and 54,198th in the world for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector.