Category: Psychotic Dictatorship | ||
Civil Rights: Rare |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Rare |
Regional Influence: Sprat
Location: Osiris
Population | 4.596 billion |
Currency | Yen |
Animal | Wolf |
The Theocracy of Ump288 is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its vat-grown people, public floggings, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.596 billion Ump288ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."
The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 73.7%.
The frighteningly efficient Ump288ian economy, worth 776 trillion Yen 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, 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 an impressive 168,847 Yen, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.
Fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding", six-year-old children playing dress-up are viewed with suspicion, the government has granted that two plus two makes four, and women who walk into the ladies' changing room are accused of being Peeping Toms. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ump288's national animal is the Wolf, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
Ump288 is ranked 111,107th in the world and 1,406th in Osiris for Most Stationary, with 355.71197373308 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Ump288, women who walk into the ladies' changing room are accused of being Peeping Toms.
- : Following new legislation in Ump288, the government has granted that two plus two makes four.
- : Following new legislation in Ump288, six-year-old children playing dress-up are viewed with suspicion.
- : Following new legislation in Ump288, fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding".
- : Ump288 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Average Tax Rates.
- : Following new legislation in Ump288, little children cry as their rainbow drawings are seized by the Straight-Thought Police.
- : Following new legislation in Ump288, sales of disinfectant wipes have skyrocketed.
- : Following new legislation in Ump288, Tom and Jerry cartoons have cat and mouse resolving their problems with reasoned discussion.
- : Following new legislation in Ump288, military parades quietly tiptoe their way through the streets.
- : Following new legislation in Ump288, Leader's media campaigns take a hiatus around exam week.