by Max Barry

Latest Forum Topics

Advertisement

Spotlight on:

National Flag

The Way too many of Lander cans

“Join The Order of the Grey Wardens!”

Category: Authoritarian Democracy
Civil Rights:
Unheard Of
Economy:
Fair
Political Freedoms:
Below Average

Regional Influence: Unproven

Location: Artificial Solar System

OverviewPoliciesPeopleGovernmentEconomyRankTrendCards

Lander cans

Population842 million

CurrencyDuckcoin
AnimalDuck

The Way too many of Lander cans is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, avant-garde cinema, and compulsory gun ownership. The quiet, industrious population of 842 million Kerbal space programs are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, moralistic, socially-minded government prioritizes Defense, with Administration, Education, and Healthcare also on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 41.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Kerbal economy, worth 34.4 trillion Duckcoins 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 slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Tourism, Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, 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 40,841 Duckcoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Leader's family members carry literal get-out-of-jail-free cards, a good deed is rewarded with a thank you note attached to a deportation order, hospitals have to sell their computers on vBay in order to afford the ransomware decryption payments, and mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lander cans's national animal is the Duck, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Lander cans is ranked 40,954th in the world and 542nd in Artificial Solar System for Most Authoritarian, with 2,035.26 milliStalins.

Top
10%
Most Armed: 20,683rdMost Conservative: 27,956th
Top
5%
Most Armed: 233rd in the regionTop
10%
Highest Workforce Participation Rate: 273rd in the regionMost Conservative: 413th in the regionMost Income Equality: 413th in the region

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Following new legislation in Lander cans, mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field.
  • : Following new legislation in Lander cans, hospitals have to sell their computers on vBay in order to afford the ransomware decryption payments.
  • : Following new legislation in Lander cans, a good deed is rewarded with a thank you note attached to a deportation order.
  • : Following new legislation in Lander cans, Leader's family members carry literal get-out-of-jail-free cards.
  • : Lander cans's influence in Artificial Solar System rose from "Zero" to "Unproven".
  • : Following new legislation in Lander cans, pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi.
  • : Following new legislation in Lander cans, unpopular cops are fired at a moment's notice by the citizens they police.
  • : Following new legislation in Lander cans, East Lebatuckese astronauts' favorite game during downtime on the Multinational Space Station is 'I Spy'.
  • : Following new legislation in Lander cans, only those who apply can study applied maths.
  • : Lander cans relocated from M and M HS to Artificial Solar System.

More...

Report