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The Kingdom of Overexposed Urcea is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its unlimited-speed roads, frequent executions, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 525 million Overexposed Urceans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 30.7%.

The strong Overexposed Urcean economy, worth 37.8 trillion Talers 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, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 72,080 Talers, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 339,592 per year while the poor average 9,084, a ratio of 37.4 to 1.

Fair-weather fans talk during plays while die-hard theatre enthusiasts stay at home, Overexposed Urcea successfully hosted the Rainbow Society Olympics, forest fires have dropped dramatically as there are hardly any forests left, and murder rates are on the rise as the popularity of soylent products grows. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Overexposed Urcea's national animal is the Yellow Labrador, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Overexposed Urcea is ranked 115,169^th in the world and 8^th in Rainbow Society for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 1,319.55 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.