Category: Authoritarian Democracy | ||
Civil Rights: Rare |
Economy: All-Consuming |
Political Freedoms: Few |
Regional Influence: Hermit
Location: Black Army
Population | 23.154 billion |
Currency | $$ |
Animal | Dolly Varden |
The Protectorate of BA-1 is a gargantuan, efficient nation, notable for its ritual sacrifices, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 23.154 billion BA-1ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.
The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 57.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The all-consuming BA-1ian economy, worth a remarkable 2,038 trillion $$s a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 88,021 $$s, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Weird kids who eat bugs are breaking the law, getting an infected tattoo is considered a rite of passage in BA-1, top-shelf magazines feature risqué centrefold spreads of ladies' wrists, and polygamy is legal. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. BA-1's national animal is the Dolly Varden, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
BA-1 is ranked 2,654th in the world and 1st in Black Army for Most Stationary, with 3,875.70585288 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : BA-1 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Influential.
- : BA-1 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Influential.
- : BA-1 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most World Assembly Endorsements.
- : BA-1 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most World Assembly Endorsements.
- : BA-1 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Influential.
- : BA-1 set the regional banner of Black Army.
- : BA-1 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most World Assembly Endorsements.
- : Following new legislation in BA-1, polygamy is legal.
- : Following new legislation in BA-1, top-shelf magazines feature risqué centrefold spreads of ladies' wrists.
- : Following new legislation in BA-1, getting an infected tattoo is considered a rite of passage in BA-1.