Location: Balder

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Federal Republic of Yentec is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Faisal with an even hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space. Its compassionate population of 1.108 billion 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Social Welfare, although Education and Law & Order are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yentec City. The average income tax rate is 55%, and even higher for the wealthy. A healthy private sector is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, followed by Pizza Delivery and Uranium Mining.

Organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region, jails have become colloquially known as 'vampire houses', prisoners work-share to cut down rising costs of keeping them in jail, and parents live in fear of governmental 'child protection' squads. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yentec's national animal is the Crocodile, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the US Dollar.

Yentec is ranked 1,820th in Balder and 74,871st in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -16 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and