Location: The Empire of Friendship

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The Mother of the Empire of Retro Lyra is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Rodrick Jones with a fair hand, and renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.837 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hollo Caverns. The average income tax rate is 83%, and even higher for the wealthy. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Tax evaders are regularly visited by agents of the Retro Lyra Blood Tithe, large areas of Retro Lyra are not accessible by the public, inheritance tax has recently been abolished, and there's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Retro Lyra's national animal is the llama with hats, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Zeldian Rupee.

Retro Lyra is ranked 10th in The Empire of Friendship and 46,309th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 20 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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