Category: Iron Fist Consumerists | ||
Civil Rights: Rare |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Outlawed |
Regional Influence: Sprat
Location: Lazarus
Population | 6.456 billion |
Currency | Money |
Animal | Rattlesnake |
The United Kingdom of Ump62 is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its enslaved workforce, parental licensing program, and triple-decker prams. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 6.456 billion Ump62ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."
The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 78.7%.
The frighteningly efficient Ump62ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,513 trillion Monies 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, Woodchip Exports, 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 234,419 Monies, with the richest citizens earning 9.0 times as much as the poorest.
Getting an autograph has become harder than ever, drug deals return to the streets as legions of undercover officers stalk the dark web, political activists are routinely executed, and studio executives abandon tragic stories of star-crossed lovers because "it's been done". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ump62's national animal is the Rattlesnake, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Ump62 is ranked 13,462nd in the world and 941st in Lazarus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 95.92 law-abiding acts per hour.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Ump62, studio executives abandon tragic stories of star-crossed lovers because "it's been done".
- : Following new legislation in Ump62, political activists are routinely executed.
- : Following new legislation in Ump62, drug deals return to the streets as legions of undercover officers stalk the dark web.
- : Following new legislation in Ump62, getting an autograph has become harder than ever.
- : Following new legislation in Ump62, everyone has the equal opportunity to have their wallet stolen.
- : Following new legislation in Ump62, internet moderators work overtime to remove memes comparing Leader to cartoon bears.
- : Following new legislation in Ump62, mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field.
- : Following new legislation in Ump62, prison walls have had to be modified to keep parkour-trained criminals from escaping.
- : Following new legislation in Ump62, ethnic minorities are often refused admission to some of the nation's best schools.
- : Following new legislation in Ump62, news editors who eschew the state-approved superlatives for describing Leader tend to disappear.