The Republic of Vara 141 is a colossal, safe nation, notable for its public floggings, free-roaming dinosaurs, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.432 billion Vara 141ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."
The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 76.1%.
The frighteningly efficient Vara 141ian economy, worth 905 trillion lire a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 140,769 lire, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 427,419 per year while the poor average 36,028, a ratio of 11.9 to 1.
Bald-headed monks sit around the National Meditation Park looking smugly content, Leader lives life on the open road - complete with groupies, would-be emigrants are told "abandon all hope all ye who would exit here", and an IT mega-corporation has a patent pending on the rectangle. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vara 141's national animal is the emu, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Vara 141 is ranked 14,445th in the world and 41st in Eye for Lowest Crime Rates, with 94.8 law-abiding acts per hour.
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Vara 141, an IT mega-corporation has a patent pending on the rectangle.
- : Following new legislation in Vara 141, would-be emigrants are told "abandon all hope all ye who would exit here".
- : Following new legislation in Vara 141, Leader lives life on the open road - complete with groupies.
- : Following new legislation in Vara 141, bald-headed monks sit around the National Meditation Park looking smugly content.
- : Following new legislation in Vara 141, violently opinionated speakers can be heard preaching their hateful views on every street corner.
- : Vara 141 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Lowest Crime Rates.
- : Following new legislation in Vara 141, board shorts have replaced board rooms.
- : Following new legislation in Vara 141, Leader goes out to lunch surrounded by large men in dark glasses.
- : Following new legislation in Vara 141, janitors and factory workers are often better educated than the bosses they work for.
- : Following new legislation in Vara 141, high school band practice is often crashed by technicolor-clad ravers.