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The State of Reykjanesbear

“In a State of Fear”

Category: Psychotic Dictatorship
Civil Rights:
Outlawed
Economy:
Imploded
Political Freedoms:
Outlawed

Regional Influence: Envoy

Location: Minnesota

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Reykjanesbear

Population17.793 billion

CapitalCapital Heights

Currencybetale
Animaldeer

The State of Reykjanesbear is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The cynical population of 17.793 billion Reykjanesbearians 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 73.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Reykjanesbearian economy, worth 72.3 trillion betales 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 slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Trout Farming, Arms Manufacturing, Pizza Delivery, and Tourism. 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 4,063 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Political activists are routinely executed, citizens are barcoded to keep track of their movements, genetic researchers have been expelled, and Reykjanesbear has designated Capital Heights as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Reykjanesbear's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Reykjanesbear is ranked 200,777th in the world and 7th in Minnesota for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 16 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.

Top
1%
Most Authoritarian: 219thMost Income Equality: 283rdMost Extreme: 1,293rdMost Conservative: 1,690thTop
5%
Most Ignorant Citizens: 8,737thTop
10%
Largest Populations: 20,158thMost Valuable International Artwork: 26,675th

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Reykjanesbear was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Valuable International Artwork.
  • : Reykjanesbear's influence in Minnesota rose from "Duckspeaker" to "Envoy".
  • : Reykjanesbear was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Zombies, Most Dead, and Most Survivors.
  • : Reykjanesbear was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Average Tax Rates.
  • : Reykjanesbear was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Conservative.
  • : Reykjanesbear's influence in Minnesota rose from "Handshaker" to "Duckspeaker".
  • : Reykjanesbear's influence in Minnesota fell from "Duckspeaker" to "Handshaker".
  • : Reykjanesbear's influence in Minnesota rose from "Handshaker" to "Duckspeaker".
  • : Reykjanesbear's influence in Minnesota rose from "Nipper" to "Handshaker".
  • : Reykjanesbear relocated from Balder to Minnesota.

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