Category: Free-Market Paradise | ||
Civil Rights: Few |
Economy: All-Consuming |
Political Freedoms: Superb |
Regional Influence: Nipper
Location: the West Pacific
Population | 21.863 billion |
Capital | Goldschmidtfels |
Leader | Sam Bell |
Faith | profit |
Currency | chatter |
Animal | tardigrade |
The Asteroid Mines of 21 Lutetia is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Sam Bell with a fair hand, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, deadly medical pandemics, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 21.863 billion Miners enjoy frequent elections, which are uniformly corrupted by big-spending corporations buying politicians who best suit their interests.
The minute, pro-business government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Spirituality, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Goldschmidtfels. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 3.9%.
The all-consuming Mining economy, worth a remarkable 1,861 trillion chatters a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Gambling, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 85,160 chatters, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 555,287 per year while the poor average 5,168, a ratio of 107 to 1.
Nervous homeowners have been blamed for rising death rates amongst carol singers and locksmiths, sales of fishnet stockings have reached a record high, small businesses are gobbled up almost daily by corporate giants, and it is illegal to liberate slaves. Crime is a problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. 21 Lutetia's national animal is the tardigrade, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is profit.
21 Lutetia is ranked 150,619th in the world and 2,009th in the West Pacific for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 1,615.81 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : 21 Lutetia was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Disposable Incomes, Highest Economic Output, Highest Wealthy Incomes, and Most Avoided and the Top 10% for Most Valuable International Artwork.
- : 21 Lutetia's influence in The West Pacific rose from "Newcomer" to "Nipper".
- : 21 Lutetia was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Dead.
- : 21 Lutetia was cleansed by a Level 5 Invasion Tactical Zombie Elimination Squad from The états alliés of Recuecn, killing 332 million zombies.
- : 21 Lutetia was cleansed by a Level 5 Invasion Tactical Zombie Elimination Squad from The Watchers Crown of Varanius, killing 275 million zombies.
- : 21 Lutetia was cleansed by a Level 1 Strike Force Tactical Zombie Elimination Squad from East veilshire, killing 1 million zombies.
- : 21 Lutetia was cleansed by a Level 1 Strike Force Tactical Zombie Elimination Squad from East veilshire, killing 1 million zombies.
- : 21 Lutetia was cleansed by a Level 2 Specialist Tactical Zombie Elimination Squad from The War Criminal of Dalimbar, killing 256 million zombies.
- : 21 Lutetia was cleansed by a Level 2 Specialist Tactical Zombie Elimination Squad from Nicorvant, killing 101 million zombies.
- : 21 Lutetia was cleansed by a Level 2 Specialist Tactical Zombie Elimination Squad from Quixano, killing 110 million zombies.