Category: Moralistic Democracy | ||
Civil Rights: Some |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Good |
Regional Influence: Sprat
Location: The Glorious Nations of Iwaku
Population | 16.359 billion |
Currency | Deer Skin |
Animal | horse |
The Free Hold of Urstadge is a gargantuan, cultured nation, renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, smutty television, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 16.359 billion Urstadgeans 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 minute government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 1.2%.
The frighteningly efficient Urstadgean economy, worth a remarkable 2,921 trillion Deer Skins a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Gambling, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 178,588 Deer Skins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.2 times as much as the poorest.
Bounty hunters have been dispatched to hunt down rogue bounty hunters, doughnut-makers claim their products are healthy because they are fortified with vitamins, it turns out that you actually can put a price on intangible cultural heritage, and oil rigs in winter are heated by contained oil slick fires. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Urstadge's national animal is the horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Urstadge is ranked 119,482nd in the world and 101st in The Glorious Nations of Iwaku for Most Stationary, with 301.27461968412 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Urstadge, oil rigs in winter are heated by contained oil slick fires.
- : Following new legislation in Urstadge, it turns out that you actually can put a price on intangible cultural heritage.
- : Following new legislation in Urstadge, doughnut-makers claim their products are healthy because they are fortified with vitamins.
- : Following new legislation in Urstadge, bounty hunters have been dispatched to hunt down rogue bounty hunters.
- : Following new legislation in Urstadge, claims adjusters are uselessly vague.
- : Urstadge was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Workforce Participation Rate.
- : Following new legislation in Urstadge, the government merely sends empty platitudes whenever natural disasters strike foreign nations.
- : Following new legislation in Urstadge, psychiatrists bizarrely accompany Leader to meetings with foreign heads of state.
- : Following new legislation in Urstadge, the government has little issue with allowing its citizens to languish in foreign jails.
- : Following new legislation in Urstadge, citizens sell their moldy bread as homemade penicillin.