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The Armed Nation of Kyrek is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Drek Jayron with an iron fist, and remarkable for its frequent executions, infamous sell-swords, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 3.489 billion Kyrekians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order and Administration also on the agenda, while International Aid and Social Policy receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Odeka. The average income tax rate is 73.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Kyrekian economy, worth 468 trillion Kyrs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 134,366 Kyrs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's soldiers often believe they're in the Air Force, slow dancing is made trickier when Auntie Edna insists on standing between the couple's arms, the nation's orphanages and maternity wards have been nicknamed 'the Killbot Factories', and hand-to-hand combat experience is udderly essential for all dairy ranchers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kyrek's national animal is the Arctic Python, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is None.

Kyrek is ranked 334,972^nd in the world and 23^rd in The Southern Lands for Most Pacifist, with 3.6 cheeks turned per day.