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“Today is a good day”

The Dark Yellow Pixies of The Sparrowhawk is a colossal, devout nation, notable for its ban on automobiles. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 7.885 billion are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Religion & Spirituality, the Environment, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 27%, but much higher for the wealthy. 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.

People are moving into treehouses in record numbers, strict term limits have been applied to all elected offices, the public health bureaucracy is wrapped in miles of red tape, and skateboarding is the only legal way to travel. Crime is a problem, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. The Sparrowhawk's national animal is the Golden Hawk, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Phane.

The Sparrowhawk is ranked 2nd in the region and 5,045th in the world for Largest Nations.