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The Republic of Upper Forkod Bareeiginic is a titanic, orderly nation, remarkable for its burgeoning penguin population. The hard-working, cynical population of 10.101 billion Upper Forkod Bareeiginicians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, pro-business, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Public Transport, and Administration also on the agenda, while International Aid receives no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10.7%.

The thriving Upper Forkod Bareeiginician economy, worth 613 trillion deniers a year, is led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is 60,709 deniers, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 214,893 per year while the poor average 12,383, a ratio of 17.4 to 1.

Crime is a problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Upper Forkod Bareeiginic's national animal is the penguin, which can occasionally be seen avoiding garbage in the nation's murky oceans.

Upper Forkod Bareeiginic is ranked 103,319^th in the world and 1^st in the Left for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 11,323.29 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.