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“Fail Greatly!”

The Dominion of The House of Valles is a huge, economically powerful nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 965 million 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, corrupt, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Equality, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of San Valentino. The average income tax rate is 51%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, followed by Woodchip Exports and Tourism.

Same-sex marriages are increasingly common, the tenet of free speech is held dear, almost half of the child population live rough on the streets, and children are raised bilingual from an early age. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is a major problem, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. The House of Valles's national animal is the unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the celestri.

The House of Valles is ranked 2392nd in the region and 50,541st in the world for Highest Unemployment Rates.