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The Royal Welch Fusiliers of UpperWales is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Arch-Duke Owain Glyndwr with an even hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 13.651 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bangor. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 51%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, followed by Uranium Mining and Book Publishing.

The country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, the military is blowing up any threat to employment within the nation, more and more students are taking up a career in medicine, and recruitment posters proclaim the army to be both fabulous and fashionable. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. UpperWales's national animal is the goat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the Pound Sterling.

UpperWales is ranked 47th in And A Great Big Bushy Beard and 100,803rd in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -10 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and