Category: New York Times Democracy | ||
Civil Rights: Very Good |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Superb |
Regional Influence: Negotiator
Location: Barbaria
Population | 24.97 billion |
Capital | Commoriom |
Leader | Imperator Adamanus |
Faith | Beyd |
Currency | Mark |
Animal | Eroros |
The Hyperborean Empire of Vostag is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Imperator Adamanus with a fair hand, and notable for its otherworldly petting zoo, public floggings, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 24.97 billion Hyperboreans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.
The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Commoriom. The average income tax rate is 99.4%.
The frighteningly efficient Hyperborean economy, worth a remarkable 5,986 trillion Marks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 239,755 Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
One-stop superstores divide and conquer family businesses, maximum security Hyperborean subway stations inspire prison systems around the world, an online tea-bagging epidemic is getting worse and (meta)worse, and increasing inclusiveness is a sign of the times. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vostag's national animal is the Eroros, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Beyd.
Vostag is ranked 216,226th in the world and 137th in Barbaria for Most Conservative, scoring 41.75 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Vostag changed its national motto to "Blood & Steel".
- : Vostag was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Dead.
- : Vostag was cleansed by a Level 4 Combined Force Tactical Zombie Elimination Squad from The Dictatorship of Diracqa, killing 87 million zombies.
- : Vostag was cleansed by a Level 4 Combined Force Tactical Zombie Elimination Squad from The Dictatorship of Diracqa, killing 47 million zombies and restoring to a zombie exterminator!
- : Vostag was ravaged by a Zombie Thing Horde from The Empire of Dankest Kekistan, infecting 9 million survivors.
- : Vostag was ravaged by a Zombie Thing Horde from The Empire of Dankest Kekistan, infecting 13 million survivors.
- : Vostag was ravaged by a Zombie Thing Horde from The Empire of Dankest Kekistan, infecting 17 million survivors.
- : Vostag was ravaged by a Zombie Thing Horde from The Empire of Dankest Kekistan, infecting 10 million survivors and converting to a zombie exporter! Oh no!
- : Vostag was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Zombies, the Top 5% for Most Zombified, and the Top 10% for Most Dead and Most Survivors.
- : Vostag changed its national motto to "Spooky, Scary, Werewolf Bar Mitzvah!".