The Republic of Yelpool is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its smutty television, compulsory military service, and national health service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.302 billion Yelpoolians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.
The medium-sized, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 68.7%.
The frighteningly efficient Yelpoolian economy, worth 157 trillion florins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Pizza Delivery, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 120,607 florins, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 464,604 per year while the poor average 21,534, a ratio of 21.6 to 1.
Electrocution deaths among computer technicians are at an all-time high, the meaning of life was recently discovered in the patch notes for Version 1.42, when shaking hands with foreign leaders Leader wears an armoured gauntlet, and the NHS is snowed under by requests for crisper ciabatta and tenderer tagliatelle. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yelpool's national animal is the squirrel, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Yelpool is ranked 324,022nd in the world and 1,163rd in Concord for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -12.92 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Yelpool, the NHS is snowed under by requests for crisper ciabatta and tenderer tagliatelle.
- : Following new legislation in Yelpool, when shaking hands with foreign leaders Leader wears an armoured gauntlet.
- : Following new legislation in Yelpool, the meaning of life was recently discovered in the patch notes for Version 1.42.
- : Following new legislation in Yelpool, electrocution deaths among computer technicians are at an all-time high.
- : Yelpool was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Secular and the Top 10% for Most Pro-Market.
- : Yelpool was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Cultured.
- : Following new legislation in Yelpool, surrealist houses shaped like mushrooms and volcanoes dominate the wealthiest neighborhoods.
- : Following new legislation in Yelpool, phone taps are frequently carried out by the police.
- : Following new legislation in Yelpool, people say that cubists are rubbish because they can't draw faces.
- : Following new legislation in Yelpool, celebrity foodies are biting a huge chunk out of the government budget.