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The Armed Republic of Yurp Central

“Do, or do not, there is no try”

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The Armed Republic of Yurp Central is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Ricky Bobby with a fair hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless, devout population of 9.737 billion Yurp Centralians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Detraf. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 12.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Yurp Centralian economy, worth a remarkable 2,758 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 283,311 dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,028,221 per year while the poor average 55,597, a ratio of 18.5 to 1.

Gun owners are skilled at everything except shooting, savvy students quote paywalled research knowing that university lecturers can't afford to check the citations, children must make a homemade spinach and ricotta rotolo by high school or be held back, and possession of tomato seeds with intent to garden is a criminal offence. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yurp Central's national animal is the panther, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Open for discussion.

Yurp Central is ranked 1,213^th in the world and 63^rd in The North Pacific for Safest, scoring 159.14 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.

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