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“Dry and Spiky”

The Unicorn Glades of Seerfir is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, notable for its parental licensing program. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 10.173 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, Healthcare, and Public Transport. The average income tax rate is 100%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, followed by Information Technology and Trout Farming.

Record sales of 'child-whacking sticks' have been recorded, schools have extensive counseling programs for troubled students, protests are legal but strictly supervised, and cremation is compulsory for the deceased. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Seerfir's national animal is the thorny devil, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the alicorn.

Seerfir is ranked 2nd in the region and 3,061st in the world for Rudest Citizens.