The Republic of Yearning is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, ritual sacrifices, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 2.167 billion Yearningians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.
The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 73.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Yearningian economy, worth 244 trillion pesos a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 112,859 pesos, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.
Large areas of Yearning are not accessible by the public, bad punctuation has come to a full stop, criminals and college students are taking an interest in the government's new weed-killing program, and garbage bags floating down the river are churned up by man-made rapids. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yearning's national animal is the crocodile, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.
Yearning is ranked 28,735th in the world and 1,036th in Two for Highest Poor Incomes, with 76,487.2 Standard Monetary Units.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Yearning, garbage bags floating down the river are churned up by man-made rapids.
- : Following new legislation in Yearning, criminals and college students are taking an interest in the government's new weed-killing program.
- : Following new legislation in Yearning, bad punctuation has come to a full stop.
- : Following new legislation in Yearning, large areas of Yearning are not accessible by the public.
- : Following new legislation in Yearning, the banshee wail foretells skies of death.
- : Following new legislation in Yearning, Yearningian soldiers are assured their new ray-guns will finally power up after the next round of ominous chanting.
- : Yearning was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Retail Industry.
- : Following new legislation in Yearning, citizens are bombarded with advertising from their compulsory miniature radios.
- : Yearning was reclassified from "Authoritarian Democracy" to "Moralistic Democracy".
- : Following new legislation in Yearning, weekly religious services often resemble campaign rallies.
