Category: Psychotic Dictatorship | ||
Civil Rights: Outlawed |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Outlawed |
Regional Influence: Nipper
Location: The Communist Bloc
Population | 22.595 billion |
Capital | Manus Urbs |
Leader | Supreme Commander Ares |
Faith | The Way of War |
Currency | Bronze Coin |
Animal | Wolf |
The Militarized State of Flammaland is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Supreme Commander Ares with an iron fist, and notable for its compulsory military service, rampant corporate plagiarism, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 22.595 billion Flammalandians 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 relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government is dominated by the Department of Defense, although Industry, Law & Order, and Education are also considered important, while Environment and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Manus Urbs. The average income tax rate is 78.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Flammalandian economy, worth an astonishing 15,842 trillion Bronze Coins 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, 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 a breathtaking 701,146 Bronze Coins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.
The government advises foreign diplomats to speak softly and carry a big bag of cash, the state has declared war on the environment and environmentalists by association, the might of the entire Flammalandian Navy is focused on fifty bemused spear-throwing islanders, and the government burgles the houses of holidaying citizens. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Flammaland's national animal is the Wolf, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is The Way of War.
Flammaland is ranked 306,700th in the world and 1,395th in The Communist Bloc for Most Cultured, scoring -131 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Flammaland, the government burgles the houses of holidaying citizens.
- : Following new legislation in Flammaland, the might of the entire Flammalandian Navy is focused on fifty bemused spear-throwing islanders.
- : Following new legislation in Flammaland, the state has declared war on the environment and environmentalists by association.
- : Following new legislation in Flammaland, the government advises foreign diplomats to speak softly and carry a big bag of cash.
- : Following new legislation in Flammaland, men who wear pink are seen as dangerously unmanly.
- : Flammaland was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Highest Disposable Incomes.
- : Following new legislation in Flammaland, if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it... Flammalandian satellites can detect it.
- : Following new legislation in Flammaland, constipated-looking politicians are uptight about potty mouths.
- : Following new legislation in Flammaland, meat is a luxury afforded only to the wealthy.
- : Following new legislation in Flammaland, art criticism in Flammaland is scathingly destructive.