Category: Psychotic Dictatorship | ||
Civil Rights: Some |
Economy: Powerhouse |
Political Freedoms: Few |
Regional Influence: Nipper
Location: Osiris
Population | 15.024 billion |
Currency | cherry pit |
Animal | Worm |
The WM of WM is a gargantuan, orderly nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 15.024 billion WMians 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 58.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The powerhouse WMian economy, worth a remarkable 1,929 trillion cherry pits 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 a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. 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 impressive 128,410 cherry pits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Saying 'no homo' is enough to escape punishment for the crime of being gay, ten-year-olds regularly found their own political parties, Leader's media campaigns take a hiatus around exam week, and many marriages go virtually unconsummated. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. WM's national animal is the Worm, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
WM is ranked 18,781st in the world and 992nd in Osiris for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 9,088.54 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : WM was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Black Market and Highest Economic Output and the Top 10% for Most Patriotic.
- : WM's influence in Osiris rose from "Newcomer" to "Nipper".
- : WM was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Poor Incomes.
- : WM was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Mining Sector.
- : WM's influence in Osiris rose from "Hatchling" to "Newcomer".
- : WM's influence in Osiris rose from "Unproven" to "Hatchling".
- : WM's influence in Osiris rose from "Zero" to "Unproven".
- : WM was refounded in Osiris.
- : WM ceased to exist in Balder.
- : WM's influence in Balder rose from "Unproven" to "Hatchling".