Category: Moralistic Democracy | ||
Civil Rights: Unheard Of |
Economy: Powerhouse |
Political Freedoms: Very Good |
Regional Influence: Shoeshiner
Location: After the Fall
Population | 2.324 billion |
Capital | Hyarmentir |
Leader | Morgoth Black Hand |
Faith | Growing Shadow |
Currency | Flame of Udun |
Animal | Dark Fire |
The Servant of the Shadow of Ungoliant the Gloomweaver is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Morgoth Black Hand with an even hand, and notable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, zero percent divorce rate, and prohibition of alcohol. The compassionate, devout population of 2.324 billion Ungoliant 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 medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hyarmentir. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 45.9%.
The powerhouse Ungoliant economy, worth 189 trillion Flames of Udun a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Basket Weaving, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 81,434 Flames of Udun, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 232,818 per year while the poor average 22,688, a ratio of 10.3 to 1.
School plays were recently banned due to concerns of child endangerment, a cyber-war between file sharers and the music industry formats hard drives across the country, welfare recipients are milking the government for all they've got, and the Holy Office of the Inquisition is the highest court in the land. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ungoliant the Gloomweaver's national animal is the Dark Fire, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Growing Shadow.
Ungoliant the Gloomweaver is ranked 99,453rd in the world and 17th in After the Fall for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 44,056 Standard Monetary Units.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Ungoliant the Gloomweaver's influence in After the Fall rose from "Sprat" to "Shoeshiner".
- : Ungoliant the Gloomweaver's influence in After the Fall rose from "Minnow" to "Sprat".
- : Ungoliant the Gloomweaver's influence in After the Fall rose from "Zero" to "Minnow".
- : Ungoliant the Gloomweaver was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Conservative.
- : Ungoliant the Gloomweaver relocated from Valinor to After the Fall.
- : Following new legislation in Ungoliant the Gloomweaver, the Holy Office of the Inquisition is the highest court in the land.
- : Following new legislation in Ungoliant the Gloomweaver, welfare recipients are milking the government for all they've got.
- : Following new legislation in Ungoliant the Gloomweaver, a cyber-war between file sharers and the music industry formats hard drives across the country.
- : Following new legislation in Ungoliant the Gloomweaver, school plays were recently banned due to concerns of child endangerment.
- : Following new legislation in Ungoliant the Gloomweaver, orientation videos remind rookie female politicians that slaps on the bottom are perfectly acceptable forms of communication.