Category: Authoritarian Democracy | ||
Civil Rights: Few |
Economy: Strong |
Political Freedoms: Some |
Regional Influence: Sprat
Location: Artificial Solar System
Population | 7.702 billion |
Currency | bits |
Animal | pony |
The Queendom of Starlight Glimmer 39 is a colossal, cultured nation, notable for its zero percent divorce rate, parental licensing program, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed population of 7.702 billion Starlight Glimmer 39ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.
The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 35.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.
The strong Starlight Glimmer 39ian economy, worth 550 trillion bits 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 Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Tourism. 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 71,458 bits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.
Every day has been a surprise since weather reporters turned to consulting ancient totems for their seven-day forecasts, school uniforms are compulsory, the police double as repo men, and convicted criminals are given free limo rides to jail. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starlight Glimmer 39's national animal is the pony, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.
Starlight Glimmer 39 is ranked 36,751st in the world and 56th in Artificial Solar System for Most Cultured, scoring 76 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Starlight Glimmer 39's influence in Artificial Solar System rose from "Minnow" to "Sprat".
- : Starlight Glimmer 39 applied to join the World Assembly.
- : Starlight Glimmer 39's influence in Artificial Solar System rose from "Nipper" to "Minnow".
- : Starlight Glimmer 39's influence in Artificial Solar System rose from "Newcomer" to "Nipper".
- : Starlight Glimmer 39's influence in Artificial Solar System rose from "Hatchling" to "Newcomer".
- : Starlight Glimmer 39's influence in Artificial Solar System rose from "Unproven" to "Hatchling".
- : Starlight Glimmer 39's influence in Artificial Solar System rose from "Zero" to "Unproven".
- : Starlight Glimmer 39 relocated from Hakodate to Artificial Solar System.
- : Starlight Glimmer 39 applied to join the World Assembly.
- : Starlight Glimmer 39's influence in Hakodate rose from "Dealmaker" to "Eminence Grise".