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“Respect is earned”

The Empire of Yulaima is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its restrictive gun laws. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 840 million 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 Law & Order, Education, and Defence. The average income tax rate is 42%, but much higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Tourism industry, followed by Book Publishing and Gambling.

Citizens are regularly arrested in queues for 'loitering', procrastination is a national sport, hundreds of thousands of convicts work as slaves in Yulaima's many privately-owned prisons, and scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yulaima's national animal is the flying panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the nenga.

Yulaima is ranked 296th in the region and 24,028th in the world for Largest Nations.