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The Born Cool Playahs of Taeshan is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Alec McNamara with an even hand, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 5.596 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Public Transport, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Atlantea. The average income tax rate is 93%, and even 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.

Taeshan's famous countrysides are shrouded by wind farms, euthanasia is legal, government officials are held to the highest standard of morality, and the nation is completely gun-free. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Taeshan's national animal is the Falcon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Mercural.

Taeshan is ranked 1st in the region and 1,619th in the world for Most Godforsaken.