==== Overview ====
Civil Rights: Excellent (68)
Economy: Good (44)
Political Freedoms: Excellent (70) [+3]

The Free Land of Gogan is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Doctor Marcin with an even hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.025 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 devotes most of its attentions to Education, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Defence receiving almost no funds by comparison. The average income tax rate is 62%, and even higher for the wealthy. A large private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Only the wealthy can afford monorail fares, an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, the nation is currently revamping its entire education system, and anti-government political posters adorn every building like wallpaper. Crime is totally unknown. Gogan's national animal is the Goglodyte, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Gog.

Gogan is ranked 4,866th in The North Pacific and 112,082nd in the world for Most Armed, scoring -102 on the Magnum-Eastwood Ordnance Scale.

==== Issues ====
19 hours ago: Following new legislation in Gogan, anti-government political posters adorn every building like wallpaper.
The overview has been updated following the last decisions made.

A Question Of Faith (issue 310)
Infighting between major religious groups over which faith should represent Gogan in an international exhibition of holy relics escalated to a new high, today. After the latest incident, in which one official received a concussion from a sacred healing stone, all of the religious leaders are at last united - in demanding you choose a national religion.

1. "If you would grant us this one small mercy we would all be free from the iniquitous sin of envy," says Marleen Patel, nervously rubbing a small religious symbol. "One's faith is one's guiding light after all, and I believe if you choose a national religion, well, MINE anyway, that God will smile upon this nation full of heathens a little more kindly."

2. "I don't believe choosing one faith from the thousands out there is very fair," says Ivan Spirit, author of the critically acclaimed 'Agnosticism and You'. "Which god do we pick? How do we pick? It's impossible! We don't even know if higher beings exist and it's sheer arrogance to postulate otherwise! The government should officially declare that Gogan has no official religion, because the alternative would be self-damning. Not that we know that for sure, of course."

3. "Oh for chaos' sake! 'I don't know this, I don't know that' - well of course you don't!" shouts Pete Li, president of The Secular, Humanist, and Atheist Society. "But some of us have the guts to look at the available evidence and try to make something out of it! If the government has any brains or guts of its own it will reach the same conclusion that I and millions of other forward-looking people have reached: there is no God, there is no afterlife, and this is all there is. THAT, Doctor Marcin, is what the government's official stance should be."

4. "The only god this nation needs is the vengeful and unforgiving Violet!" screams Matilda Han, Grand High Poobah of the Order of Violet. "May her tentacles forever secrete slime. Embrace Violetism and we will usher in a new age of darkness across the land! Human sacrifice and death to all heretics and unbelievers! Violet is the only way!"

5. "The only deity this country needs is the one it already has, master," says Emmanuel Syme, one of your creepier advisers while obsequiously bowing on the floor. "I of course refer to you, Doctor Marcin, the finest ruler any humble subject could hope to have! We long to worship you and do your bidding! Some call that a cult of personality, but I prefer to call it... love."

==== Public announcement ====
Thanks to all of you who participated in this giveaway.

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