Spotlight on:

“Liberty and Progress”

Overview • Policies • People • Government • Economy • Rank • Trend • Cards

The Republic of Yemiria is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its absence of drug laws, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 229 million Yemirians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 63.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Yemirian economy, worth 8.57 trillion Links a year, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 37,408 Links, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Students abandon classrooms for online education, funeral directors are frequently looking at their watches during funerals, people find it hard to relate to soldiers because of the dehumanising masks they wear, and criminals lock themselves in their mums' basements to avoid prison. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yemiria's national animal is the Squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Yemiria is ranked 229,759^th in the world and 3,689^th in the South Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring zero on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.