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The Mighty dictatorship of Uunited Islands is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Hurricane with an iron fist, and renowned for its national health service, keen interest in outer space, and absence of drug laws. The hard-working, cynical population of 13.129 billion Uunited Islanders are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vodkasha. The average income tax rate is 78.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Uunited Islandic economy, worth a remarkable 1,281 trillion Uunited Island dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 97,635 Uunited Island dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Grinding bureaucracy has the international wheels of justice turning slowly, UFO sightings are listed daily in the morning news, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, and Vodkasha spends billions upgrading public transport. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Uunited Islands's national animal is the Amphicoelias, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Hoo Ha Hoo Tiki Tiki.

Uunited Islands is ranked 308,722^nd in the world and 5,037^th in the South Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -9.9 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.