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Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Kyupaa is a gargantuan, devout nation, ruled by the Winterlady with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 20.893 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 Ivdisha. The average income tax rate is 96%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Gambling industry.

Conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings, same-sex marriages are increasingly common, hunters have been known to lose limbs while attempting to 'play tag' with their prey, and cheese has become the new icon of political dissent. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kyupaa's national animal is the porcupine, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the chalice.

Kyupaa is ranked 195th in NationStates and 101,603rd in the world for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring -273 on the Gilded Widget Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and