Category: Corporate Police State | ||
Civil Rights: Unheard Of |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Unheard Of |
Regional Influence: Negotiator
Location: Swagnations
Population | 7.637 billion |
Capital | Berry bottom |
Leader | Barry the Berry lover |
Faith | geckoism |
Currency | gecko bucks |
Animal | gecko |
The Dictatorship of Geckos is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Barry the Berry lover with an iron fist, and renowned for its closed borders, lack of airports, and compulsory vegetarianism. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.637 billion Geckosians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Industry, and Education are also considered important, while Social Policy and Environment receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Berry bottom. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 91.0%.
The frighteningly efficient Geckosian economy, worth a remarkable 2,193 trillion gecko bucks a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an amazing 287,172 gecko bucks, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,371,829 per year while the poor average 7,143, a ratio of 332 to 1.
University graduates and new home-owners toil in labour camps to work off their debts, corrupt industrial practices are spreading like a plague, Ollie the Oiled Seal welcomes throngs of tourists to the newly opened Oil Oasis Water Park, and preservative-laden Geckosian cheeses will be as edible when archaeologists dig them up next millennium. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Geckos's national animal is the gecko, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is geckoism.
Geckos is ranked 78,656th in the world and 3rd in Swagnations for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 99.76 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Geckos, preservative-laden Geckosian cheeses will be as edible when archaeologists dig them up next millennium.
- : Geckos's influence in Swagnations fell from "Contender" to "Negotiator".
- : Geckos was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Greatest Rich-Poor Divides.
- : Geckos appointed The Empire of Space Romania as Space stuffs with authority over Appearance, Border Control, Communications, and Embassies in Swagnations.
- : Geckos added the tag "Anti-Fascist" to Swagnations.
- : Geckos added the tag "Anti-Communist" to Swagnations.
- : Geckos added the tag "Anti-Capitalist" to Swagnations.
- : Geckos voted against the World Assembly Resolution "Repeal "Right of Emigration"".
- : Geckos voted for the World Assembly Resolution "Repeal "Right of Emigration"".
- : Following new legislation in Geckos, Ollie the Oiled Seal welcomes throngs of tourists to the newly opened Oil Oasis Water Park.
World Assembly
Endorsements Received: None.