Category: Iron Fist Consumerists | ||
Civil Rights: Rare |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Rare |
Regional Influence: Hatchling
Location: Balder
Population | 10.114 billion |
Currency | planet |
Animal | falcon |
The Hundred Oaker Forest of Oaks 9 is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, enslaved workforce, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 10.114 billion Oaks 9ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."
The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 80.0%.
The frighteningly efficient Oaks 9ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,331 trillion planets a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, Arms Manufacturing, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 131,611 planets, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 529,348 per year while the poor average 21,898, a ratio of 24.2 to 1.
The army consists of only generals and grunts, major internet servers have acquired citizenship, the government seizes all major gold finds, and washing-up liquid looks and smells like baby poo. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Oaks 9's national animal is the falcon, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.
Oaks 9 is ranked 217,685th in the world and 7,125th in Balder for Most Primitive, scoring -94.35 on the Scary Big Number Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Oaks 9 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Advanced Public Education, Highest Wealthy Incomes, and Largest Black Market and the Top 10% for Most Developed and Highest Economic Output.
- : Oaks 9's influence in Balder rose from "Unproven" to "Hatchling".
- : Oaks 9's influence in Balder rose from "Zero" to "Unproven".
- : Oaks 9 was refounded in Balder.
- : Oaks 9 ceased to exist in Magna Aurea.
- : Oaks 9's influence in Magna Aurea rose from "Negotiator" to "Contender".
- : Oaks 9's influence in Magna Aurea rose from "Ambassador" to "Negotiator".
- : Oaks 9's influence in Magna Aurea rose from "Envoy" to "Ambassador".
- : Oaks 9's influence in Magna Aurea rose from "Duckspeaker" to "Envoy".
- : Oaks 9 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Subsidized Industry.