Category: Psychotic Dictatorship | ||
Civil Rights: Rare |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Few |
Regional Influence: Sprat
Location: Lazarus
Population | 7.271 billion |
Currency | ruble |
Animal | kiwi |
The Republic of Urial53 is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its ritual sacrifices, keen interest in outer space, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.271 billion Urial53ians 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 85.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Urial53ian economy, worth a remarkable 2,113 trillion rubles 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, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, 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 amazing 290,637 rubles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.
Citizens are exhausted from weekly general elections, forty-year-old men are asked for their ID before watching the latest pony cartoon movies, members of the government all have oddly similar anecdotes about their childhoods, and no one gossips with Leader during diplomatic summits. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Urial53's national animal is the kiwi, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Urial53 is ranked 117,625th in the world and 2,217th in Lazarus for Most Stationary, with 311.7059463414 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Urial53, no one gossips with Leader during diplomatic summits.
- : Following new legislation in Urial53, members of the government all have oddly similar anecdotes about their childhoods.
- : Following new legislation in Urial53, forty-year-old men are asked for their ID before watching the latest pony cartoon movies.
- : Following new legislation in Urial53, citizens are exhausted from weekly general elections.
- : Following new legislation in Urial53, the Urial53ian Intelligence Agency has put 'Project Quantum Refrigerator' on hold indefinitely.
- : Following new legislation in Urial53, the new airport at Mr. Giles' farm is panicking his sheep.
- : Following new legislation in Urial53, obstetricians are not allowed to publish ultrasound pictures of fetuses in medical journals.
- : Following new legislation in Urial53, ambitious "businessmen" use their children to sell and advertise their products.
- : Following new legislation in Urial53, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public.
- : Following new legislation in Urial53, passwords to nuclear codes must now contain upper and lower case characters.