Category: Psychotic Dictatorship | ||
Civil Rights: Some |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Few |
Regional Influence: Page
Location: Sunset Shimmer
Population | 6.309 billion |
Currency | Bolt |
Animal | Robot |
The Republic of Escape Velocity is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, compulsory military service, and unlimited-speed roads. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 6.309 billion Escape Velocityians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."
The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Education. The average income tax rate is 67.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Escape Velocityian economy, worth 686 trillion Bolts 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, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Woodchip Exports. 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 an impressive 108,852 Bolts, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.
Leader's Dreadnought-class tankbuster limousine is said to have more ammunition than the entire Brancalandian Army, it is illegal to brush crumbs off your clothing outdoors, singing in public is only allowed if you are singing the praise of the Motherland, and school lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Escape Velocity's national animal is the Robot, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Escape Velocity is ranked 213,836th in the world and 691st in Sunset Shimmer for Most Average, scoring 31.37 on the Average Standardized Normality Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Escape Velocity was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Foreign Aid Spending.
- : Following new legislation in Escape Velocity, school lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp.
- : Following new legislation in Escape Velocity, singing in public is only allowed if you are singing the praise of the Motherland.
- : Following new legislation in Escape Velocity, it is illegal to brush crumbs off your clothing outdoors.
- : Following new legislation in Escape Velocity, Leader's Dreadnought-class tankbuster limousine is said to have more ammunition than the entire Brancalandian Army.
- : Following new legislation in Escape Velocity, schoolkids say that the air doesn't taste like wee-wee any more.
- : Following new legislation in Escape Velocity, basic multiplication is all you need to know to have a child.
- : Following new legislation in Escape Velocity, mechanics are often exhausted by their work.
- : Following new legislation in Escape Velocity, the new national mascot has to be wheeled onto the field of play.
- : Following new legislation in Escape Velocity, childish pranks are no laughing matter.