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The Free Hold of Urstadge

“Freedom is Good”

Category: Moralistic Democracy
Civil Rights:
Some
Economy:
Frightening
Political Freedoms:
Good

Regional Influence: Sprat

Location: The Glorious Nations of Iwaku

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Urstadge

Population16.359 billion

CurrencyDeer Skin
Animalhorse

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.

Top
1%
Largest Pizza Delivery Sector: 840thLowest Overall Tax Burden: 961stHighest Crime Rates: 1,326thMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 1,560thMost Rebellious Youth: 2,206thHighest Disposable Incomes: 2,219thLargest Gambling Industry: 2,363rdLargest Publishing Industry: 2,947thTop
5%
Most Avoided: 3,259thLargest Soda Pop Sector: 3,378thMost Armed: 3,513thLargest Timber Woodchipping Industry: 4,478thLargest Furniture Restoration Industry: 6,602ndLargest Mining Sector: 7,233rdHighest Economic Output: 7,542ndRudest Citizens: 8,369thMost Cultured: 8,815thLargest Information Technology Sector: 9,430thSmartest Citizens: 12,455thMost Scientifically Advanced: 13,240thLargest Retail Industry: 13,380thHighest Workforce Participation Rate: 13,939thHighest Average Incomes: 13,969thLargest Cheese Export Sector: 14,483rdTop
10%
Most Secular: 17,070thHighest Food Quality: 17,724thLargest Black Market: 17,938thHighest Wealthy Incomes: 20,839thLargest Populations: 23,133rdHighest Poor Incomes: 24,750thLargest Insurance Industry: 26,759thLargest Basket Weaving Sector: 28,024th
Top
5%
Largest Pizza Delivery Sector: 3rd in the regionLowest Overall Tax Burden: 5th in the regionMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 7th in the regionHighest Crime Rates: 7th in the regionHighest Disposable Incomes: 7th in the regionLargest Gambling Industry: 8th in the regionMost Avoided: 9th in the regionLargest Publishing Industry: 9th in the regionTop
10%
Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry: 10th in the regionMost Rebellious Youth: 11th in the regionLargest Furniture Restoration Industry: 11th in the regionLargest Soda Pop Sector: 11th in the regionLargest Mining Sector: 16th in the regionMost Average: 17th in the regionMost Armed: 17th in the region

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.

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