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The Most Serene Republic of Narqa is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, flagrant waste-dumping, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 512 million Narqans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 51.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Narqan economy, worth 48.0 trillion Gunnahs 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 a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. 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 93,803 Gunnahs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's reputation for treachery has left it sidelined on the international stage, sleeping on the job is recommended, war is made in the name of love, and a surprising number of police officers have been arrested for Serpent sacrifices. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Narqa's national animal is the Serpent, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Narqa is ranked 179,322^nd in the world and 6,960^th in Lazarus for Most Extreme, scoring 16.79 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.