A Perfect State was a 1997 British

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 situation comedy

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 starring Gwen Taylor

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, Trevor Cooper

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, Emma Amos and Danny Webb

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. It debuted on BBC1 on Thursday 27 February 1997 and ran for seven episodes.

Taylor took the leading role of Laura Fitzgerald, the Deputy Mayor of Flatby, a town on the East Coast of England

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. As the series begins, she is informed that because Flatby was never surveyed for the Domesday Book

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, it has never officially been annexed into the United Kingdom

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. As a result, and much to the chagrin of the Government in London, Laura rallies the townsfolk to declare Flatby an independent state.