Category: Compulsory Consumerist State | ||
Civil Rights: Good |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Outlawed |
Regional Influence: Shoeshiner
Location: Lazarus
Population | 47.33 billion |
Capital | Dis |
Leader | Fearless Leader |
Faith | a Cult of Personality |
Currency | large shiny coin |
Animal | rabid squirrel |
The Fiefdom of Vidare is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Fearless Leader with an iron fist, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, public floggings, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 47.33 billion Vidareans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.
The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dis. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 86.7%.
The frighteningly efficient Vidarean economy, worth an astonishing 15,956 trillion large shiny coins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an amazing 337,126 large shiny coins, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 3,125,127 per year while the poor average 3,449, a ratio of 906 to 1.
Military spending recently hit a new high, Vidare's schoolchildren are manufactured into a segregated bunch of soldiers, religious zealots, and computer technicians, the dead are minced up and sold to people in burger form, and a typical fast food menu item could serve a small army. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. Vidare's national animal is the rabid squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is a Cult of Personality.
Vidare is ranked 2,375th in the world and 113th in Lazarus for Largest Governments, scoring 53 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Vidare was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Retail Industry.
- : Vidare was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Food Quality.
- : Vidare was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector.
- : Vidare was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Largest Basket Weaving Sector.
- : Vidare was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Largest Basket Weaving Sector.
- : Vidare was struck by a Mk I (Immunizer) Cure Missile from The Constitutional Monarchy of Rushkaville, curing 16 million infected.
- : Vidare was struck by a Mk I (Immunizer) Cure Missile from The Constitutional Monarchy of Rushkaville, curing 30 million infected.
- : Vidare was struck by a Mk I (Immunizer) Cure Missile from The Constitutional Monarchy of Rushkaville, curing 15 million infected.
- : Vidare was struck by a Mk I (Immunizer) Cure Missile from The Constitutional Monarchy of Rushkaville, curing 14 million infected.
- : Vidare was struck by a Mk I (Immunizer) Cure Missile from The Constitutional Monarchy of Rushkaville, curing 27 million infected.