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“It's my world, you can't have it.”

The Kingdom of Visdicere is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Leader with a fair hand, and renowned for its compulsory military service. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 806 million 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 Defence, Law & Order, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mjollnir. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 49%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, followed by Tourism and Arms Manufacturing.

More and more students are taking up a career in medicine, buses are widely regarded as the safest way to travel, legislation sometimes has to battle through weeks of filibustering to pass, and Leader has just been declared ruler of Visdicere in an international press conference. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is moderate. Visdicere's national animal is the elk, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the sovereign.

Visdicere is ranked 72nd in the region and 47,755th in the world for Highest Unemployment Rates.