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The Dominion of Utaranar is a very large, orderly nation, notable for its ban on automobiles, compulsory vegetarianism, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 425 million Utaranarians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Geneticity. The average income tax rate is 72.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Utaranarian economy, worth 16.8 trillion Oluches 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, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, Uranium Mining, and Retail. 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 39,526 Oluches, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Family trees become bare as entire branches are lopped off, only the wealthy vote, purchasing a can of Addison Cola requires a wheelbarrow of cash, and government doublethinkers have declared that voting is slavery. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Utaranar's national animal is the Death Wei, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Utaranar is ranked 88,482^nd in the world and 12^th in True Duck people for Highest Poor Incomes, with 34,435.74 Standard Monetary Units.