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“Este nix pax, christe nix!”

The Plutocratic Kingdom of Uhuh-Ropa is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 14.675 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Equality, the Environment, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ropadam. The average income tax rate is 100%. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Book Publishing.

The words 'private' and 'enterprise' must never appear in the same sentence, UFO sightings are listed daily in the morning news, truth is often impossible to tell from fiction on the evening news, and it is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws. Crime is totally unknown. Uhuh-Ropa's national animal is the Bouncing Ferret, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Uhuh-Ro.

Uhuh-Ropa is ranked 4th in the region and 48,251st in the world for Most Godforsaken.