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Yn

Flag of Yn
Motto: "My whim is law"
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Region	the East Pacific
Capital	Wirsav
Official Language(s)	Yn, a dialect distantly related to Spanish
Leader	"Beloved Dictator" Zina Ramirez
Population	4.6 billion
Currency	ynit
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Introductory

The Enlightened Psychotopia of Yn is renowned mainly for its reclusive leader, Zina Ramirez, who refers to herself as the country's "Beloved Dictator" and delights in being called psychotic, deranged, or other such terms suggesting pathological insanity. The country's borders are all but closed, Yn has an immense and well equipped military, and cannibalism is legal, albeit codified.

Yn has often faced, ignored and wheathered angry noises and threats of invasion from other nations (see the section on foreign relations), but so far stands firm in the bizarre and worrying path its leader has set out.

Travel advice

Information provided by travel agencies:

Entering Yn – for those few who want to try it – is a complex business. You will need to obtain an entry visa at least two weeks in advance, from your nearest Yn consulate. If there is no Yn consulate in your homeland, you will have to contact one abroad, or contact Yn’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs directly. Once you have done this, you should obtain a visa fairly easily. It will enable you to reside up to seven months in Yn.

Next problem: getting in. Yn is a very reclusive country, which few people visit (for reasons that shall be stated shortly). Unless you’re entering by land, you’ll be flying, and only Yn Air International, the country’s only international airline company, usually provides flights in and out of Yn. Foreign companies do fly there and back occasionally, but their flight schedules are not as flexible. Yn Air International can arrange for its one and only plane (flight YN-001) to touch down in your home country’s main airport at a convenient date. Although the plane can accommodate twenty passengers, you will probably be the only passenger. Needless to say, flights are very expensive.

Once you arrive, your baggage will be scanned and checked by hand. You will have to surrender all weapons and any material susceptible to be used as anti-government propaganda. This will all be returned to you as you leave the country.

There is no Internet access in Yn, except to government-approved websites. It is an offence to criticize the government. You will almost certainly be under discreet observation by one or more government agents during your entire stay, there to ensure you do not spread anti-government ideas. Trying to spot them and give them the slip is NOT advised: you will immediately be considered a spy.

Yns (an inhabitant of Yn is called an Yn) will no doubt not be very talkative. This is because they do not want to be seen conversing with a foreigner who might be trying to incite them to commit anti-government acts. You will find some Yns to be friendly and welcoming, however, and most Yns will be willing to help you out in any way they can. Just be sure not to say anything liable to get them into trouble.

Yns are cannibals. Most human meat comes from executed criminals, including a great number of criminals imported from other countries to be processed into food, but it is also legal to kill and eat someone, if you follow a number of regulations: informing the nearest police station of your intent, verifying your future victim does not benefit from any special protection, and declaring you intend to eat your victim or offering proof you have arranged to sell his/her meat. As a visiting foreigner, you will mot certainly be listed as a protected person, and thus not legally edible. You should make sure of this at the Yn consulate before entering Yn, however, and you should check again at the police station upon arrival. The police will take your safety very seriously. Although you will be legally protected, this is not an absolute guarantee of safety, though, so you should avoid walking alone outside well-used, well-lit streets in major cities, and should not spend time alone with people you do not know in a secluded area. You may also ask for an armed policeman to accompany you at all times. This service will in fact probably be offered you, for a minimal fee, as it has the added bonus of allowing the state to keep a close eye on you.

If you are not a cannibal, be sure to check the ingredients on every food product you buy.

You should remember to keep your passport on you at all times to prove you are NOT an Yn citizen. The police will then be more lenient if you commit an offence. As Yn has very little immigration, the nation is ethnically homogenous (Caucasian/Hispanic). If you do not resemble ethnic Yns, you should be all right even if you have forgotten your passport in your hotel room, but it is safer to have it with you. For most offences you will face only a fine or, at worst, temporary expulsion. If you are suspected of crimes against the state, however, you will be detained.

Public transport is fairly efficient and not too expensive. Doctors and hospitals are efficient and cheap. On the other hands, cinemas only show government-approved, usually very much censured and shortened, films, and there is only one television channel, closely monitored by the government. No foreign media sources are available.

When entering Yn, you should be aware you are entering a tight-fisted dictatorship, and a nation where human life has fairly little value. In other aspects, Yns are very much like other people around the world, and you will find similar services and entertainment here as in your homeland.

Yn has a number of interesting museums and art galleries, including the Natsional Istoriaca Moseom. Artistic expression is fairly free, so long as the government does not feel it is attempting to convey subversive messages. Yn has only a short coastal area, but it boasts a small number of beautiful beaches.

Foreign relations

Yn is a reclusive nation, and, although it has embassies and consulates at home and abroad, has little in the way of relations with other countries. Yn attracted international attention when it put out a call requesting to import criminals to be processed into food. There was an international outcry, and even threats of war should Yn not immediately abolish cannibalism, but the Yn government stuck to its policy and maintained its request.

Several nations, including CIGP, Chanistar, Roania, Vrak, Blood Peak (through their company Stormont Systems), Gryphon, Mighty Mountains, Wolfsreich, and Amerigo, responded favourably, ranging from statements of support, to actual shipments of prisoners and even permanent agreements for regular shipments.

Yn also sparked international condemnation by being the first country to sign the World Biochem Proliferation Treaty put forth by The Peoples Anthill. The Capitalist Democracy of Pilot made repeated threats to invade all the signatories of the treaty, threats which were received with scorn by the "Beloved Dictator".

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