Category: Compulsory Consumerist State | ||
Civil Rights: Good |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Rare |
Regional Influence: Apprentice
Location: Chicago
Population | 22.729 billion |
Capital | Granger City |
Leader | The Old Codger |
Faith | a major religion |
Currency | Pipe Tobacco |
Animal | Pointer |
The Pipe Smokers of Granger is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by The Old Codger with an iron fist, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, keen interest in outer space, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 22.729 billion Nicotine Addicts are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.
The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Granger City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 31.1%.
The frighteningly efficient Grangerian economy, worth a remarkable 5,331 trillion Pipe Tobaccos a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 234,588 Pipe Tobaccos, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,016,889 per year while the poor average 34,364, a ratio of 29.6 to 1.
Dinosaur breeders have a yabba-dabba-doo gay old time in Granger, the nation's counterintelligence budget is all up in the air, savvy students quote paywalled research knowing that university lecturers can't afford to check the citations, and popular sunny beaches always have a cloudy outlook. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. Granger's national animal is the Pointer, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is a major religion.
Granger is ranked 178,648th in the world and 10th in Chicago for Most Stationary, with 80.00677518452 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Granger was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Highest Economic Output.
- : Following new legislation in Granger, popular sunny beaches always have a cloudy outlook.
- : Following new legislation in Granger, savvy students quote paywalled research knowing that university lecturers can't afford to check the citations.
- : Following new legislation in Granger, the nation's counterintelligence budget is all up in the air.
- : Following new legislation in Granger, dinosaur breeders have a yabba-dabba-doo gay old time in Granger.
- : Granger was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Scientifically Advanced.
- : Granger's influence in Chicago rose from "Squire" to "Apprentice".
- : Following new legislation in Granger, the dead fish in the national rivers aren't decomposing because even bacteria can't survive the levels of toxicity.
- : Following new legislation in Granger, all gamers have been drafted into the military despite their lack of upper body strength.
- : Granger was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Highest Economic Output.