Location: Ohio

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The Pleasantly Pleased Planet of The Pleased Platypuses is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, ruled by Platypus Pete with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls. Its compassionate, hard-working population of 16.202 billion are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, moralistic government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Law & Order, with areas such as Social Equality and Social Welfare receiving almost no funds by comparison. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Uranium Mining industry.

Military service is compulsory, protests are legal but strictly supervised, several citizens have complained about scientists abducting their pets for experimentation, and penurious citizens die from easily remedied ailments because they aren't 'taking enough initiative'. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Pleased Platypuses's national animal is the pleased platypus , which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the platy.

The Pleased Platypuses is ranked 12th in Ohio and 111,082nd in the world for Longest Average Lifespans, scoring 5 on the Enoch Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and