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The Republic of Uni Islands is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Kai Uni Kekoa with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, anti-smoking policies, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed population of 1.565 billion Unis are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of St Ilton. The average income tax rate is 66.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Uni economy, worth 157 trillion Uni Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Furniture Restoration, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 100,945 Uni Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Gun ownership is compulsory, trying to toast marshmallows in an electric fireplace just isn't the same, naval patrols only last nine months, and the military is on a massive recruiting drive in advance of an invasion of Brasilistan. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Uni Islands's national animal is the Great Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Great Kekoaism.

Uni Islands is ranked 13,505^th in the world and 7^th in Mitteleuropa for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 6,757.53 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.