Spotlight on:
The State of --Q |
“D”
Category: Corporate Bordello | ||
Civil Rights: Some |
Economy: Thriving |
Political Freedoms: Excellent |
Location: Omega Prime |
Regional Influence: Squire |
The State of --Q is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by the Governor with a fair hand, and renowned for its strictly enforced bedtime, irreverence towards religion, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 2.8 billion --Qians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.
The minute government, or what there is of one, is primarily concerned with Industry, with Law & Order and International Aid also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Social Policy receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Westminster. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.9%.
The thriving --Qian economy, worth 147 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is fairly diversified and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Gambling, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 52,589 betales, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 151,648 per year while the poor average 14,477, a ratio of 10.5 to 1.
Rap artists are regularly arrested for promoting extremist groups, conversion therapy coupons are a popular present for coming of age ceremonies, the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly, and pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. --Q's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
--Q is ranked 148,375th in the world and 321st in Omega Prime for Most Stationary, with 169.18578060992 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : --Q was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Insurance Industry.
- : --Q was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Insurance Industry.
- : --Q was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Insurance Industry.
- : --Q's influence in Omega Prime rose from "Page" to "Squire".
- : --Q's influence in Omega Prime fell from "Squire" to "Page".
- : --Q's influence in Omega Prime rose from "Page" to "Squire".
- : --Q's influence in Omega Prime rose from "Shoeshiner" to "Page".
- : --Q's influence in Omega Prime rose from "Sprat" to "Shoeshiner".
- : --Q's influence in Omega Prime rose from "Zero" to "Sprat".
- : --Q was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Insurance Industry and Lowest Overall Tax Burden.