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The Bread Loving Folk of Under Upper Antartica is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Bread Mann with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, compulsory military service, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 13.163 billion Under Upper Antarticans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Breadtown. The average income tax rate is 84.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Under Upper Antartican economy, worth a remarkable 3,654 trillion People 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, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Furniture Restoration, 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 an amazing 277,626 People, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A weakened police force struggles to maintain law and order, the nation honors the inventor of the three-wheeled steam-powered Under Upper Antartican weed picker, the well-to-do in The East Pacific are never on time for important appointments, and the people consider response to rudeness to be an acceptable casus belli. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Under Upper Antartica's national animal is the Narwhale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Toast.

Under Upper Antartica is ranked 1,314^th in the world and 17^th in The East Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 15,335.34 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.