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The Empire of Tuytura

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The Empire of Tuytura is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, ubiquitous missile silos, and punitive income tax rates. The devout population of 230 million Tuyturans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Spirituality, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 70.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Tuyturan economy, worth 9.83 trillion Yulinas 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 black market in Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, 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 42,739 Yulinas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Celebrities sit helplessly as they are labeled "pompous womples" by Leader, the "give and take" of international diplomacy often happens at gunpoint, human sacrifice to the metaphorical altar of Mammon ensures national prosperity, and anything is permissible when wearing latex gloves. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tuytura's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tuytura is ranked 82,475^th in the world and 3,181^st in Lazarus for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 2,662.74 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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