Location: Europeia

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The Commonwealth of United Kingdom of Great Ethar is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by The Rt Hon A R Coxon with an even hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.341 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Equality, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Huddersfield. The average income tax rate is 63%, and even higher for the wealthy. 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 government has started a campaign to crack down on road rage and encourage alternate means of commuting, the arms industry is strictly regulated, dozens of additional foreign policy specialists have been sent to the country's WA Mission, and military spending is on the increase. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. United Kingdom of Great Ethar's national animal is the Eitharian Snow Ferret, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Great Eitharian Pound.

United Kingdom of Great Ethar is ranked 874th in Europeia and 107,068th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 10 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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