Category: Moralistic Democracy | ||
Civil Rights: Few |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Below Average |
Regional Influence: Sprat
Location: Balder
Population | 4.585 billion |
Currency | Platinum |
Animal | Black Widow |
The Constitutional Monarchy of Ump320 is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, compulsory military service, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 4.585 billion Ump320ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.
The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 77.9%.
The frighteningly efficient Ump320ian economy, worth 877 trillion Platinums 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 black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. 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 191,375 Platinums, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.
Voting for pro-Bigtopian candidates is voluntary, the government mails weekly updates on the new anti-junk mail laws to every citizen, military parades quietly tiptoe their way through the streets, and military barracks resemble five-star hotels. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ump320's national animal is the Black Widow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Ump320 is ranked 111,139th in the world and 1,431st in Balder for Most Stationary, with 355.70857095748 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Ump320, military barracks resemble five-star hotels.
- : Following new legislation in Ump320, military parades quietly tiptoe their way through the streets.
- : Following new legislation in Ump320, the government mails weekly updates on the new anti-junk mail laws to every citizen.
- : Following new legislation in Ump320, voting for pro-Bigtopian candidates is voluntary.
- : Following new legislation in Ump320, modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes.
- : Following new legislation in Ump320, increasing inclusiveness is a sign of the times.
- : Following new legislation in Ump320, EULAs remind customers that "Private Mode" is a browser setting rather than a promise.
- : Following new legislation in Ump320, many friends and relatives of Leader have been given ambassador jobs in tropical island nations.
- : Following new legislation in Ump320, renewable energy projects have ground to a halt.
- : Following new legislation in Ump320, a niche industry catering to S&M enthusiasts has sprung up.