Category: Corporate Police State | ||
Civil Rights: Rare |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Rare |
Regional Influence: Sprat
Location: the South Pacific
The Armed Republic of Sprinkler is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Adolf Einstein with an iron fist, and notable for its compulsory military service, strictly enforced bedtime, and unlimited-speed roads. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 14.944 billion Sprinklerians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.
The minute, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Defense, with Industry, Education, and Administration also on the agenda, while Environment and Welfare aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Purgatory. Income tax is unheard of.
The frighteningly efficient Sprinklerian economy, worth a remarkable 7,224 trillion slaves 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, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. 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 amazing 483,461 slaves, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 3,109,960 per year while the poor average 30,466, a ratio of 102 to 1.
Economics is a shrinking field, only AIs know why the nation is rapidly increasing its semiconductor stockpile, the sound of office water cooler chatter has been replaced by the whirring of computer cooling fans, and the bonfire of the old paper records can be seen for miles around Purgatory. Crime is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Sprinkler's national animal is the subhuman, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
Sprinkler is ranked 60,850th in the world and 908th in the South Pacific for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 4,171.29 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
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Sprinkler, the bonfire of the old paper records can be seen for miles around Purgatory.
- : Following new legislation in
Sprinkler, the sound of office water cooler chatter has been replaced by the whirring of computer cooling fans.
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Sprinkler, only AIs know why the nation is rapidly increasing its semiconductor stockpile.
- : Following new legislation in
Sprinkler, economics is a shrinking field.
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Sprinkler, military spending recently hit a new high.
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Sprinkler, prison libraries are being replaced with interrogation chambers.
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Sprinkler was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Patriotic.
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Sprinkler, the government is purchasing vast amounts of palm oil for plastics production.
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Sprinkler, policemen regularly conduct midnight raids on closed donut shops to 'collect evidence'.
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Sprinkler, schoolchildren learn basic numeracy by counting off their push-ups.