Nation/Stengland

The United Kingdom of Stengland is a huge, cultured nation, ruled by Prime Minister James Morgan with a fair hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 768 million Strettons enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized government is primarily concerned with Education, with Administration, Defense, and Welfare also on the agenda, while Spirituality and International Aid receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Staneshire. The average income tax rate is 26.2%.

The strong Stenglish economy, worth 54.7 trillion Stenglish Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Trout Farming. Average income is 71,280 Stenglish Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

Prime Minister James Morgan has just been declared ruler of Stengland in an international press conference, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, government officials go door-to-door educating about the dangers of pseudoscience, and the government loves seeing the little people fight. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Stengland's national animal is the Wolf.