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“WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!”

The People's Republic of Weltalya is a huge, safe nation, notable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate population of 223 million enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Defence. The average income tax rate is 100%. 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.

Skateparks can be found in every city, motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours, televangelists flaunt their expensive cars when they attend charity events, and the Weltalya Enquirer offers weekly cash prizes for 'most blasphemous song, story, or cartoon'. Crime is totally unknown. Weltalya's national animal is the brown bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the ruble.

Weltalya is ranked 25th in the region and 50,733rd in the world for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry.