Spotlight on:
The Multiplication of 6 x 7 |
“42”
Category: Iron Fist Consumerists | ||
Civil Rights: Rare |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Outlawed |
Location: Regionless |
Regional Influence: Vassal |
The Multiplication of 6 x 7 is a colossal, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.496 billion 6 x 7ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."
The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 72.5%.
The frighteningly efficient 6 x 7ian economy, worth 643 trillion Altairian Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Furniture Restoration, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 99,052 Altairian Dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 368,827 per year while the poor average 18,671, a ratio of 19.8 to 1.
Even secular 6 x 7ians are shouting "Blessed are the cheesemakers!", the religious lobby has the power of veto over health initiatives, nudity is frowned upon, and dining out often involves dolphins on the plate no matter what you order. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. 6 x 7's national animal is the dolphin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.
6 x 7 is ranked 101,608th in the world and 17th in Regionless for Most Stationary, with 424.15318687512 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in 6 x 7, dining out often involves dolphins on the plate no matter what you order.
- : Following new legislation in 6 x 7, nudity is frowned upon.
- : Following new legislation in 6 x 7, the religious lobby has the power of veto over health initiatives.
- : Following new legislation in 6 x 7, even secular 6 x 7ians are shouting "Blessed are the cheesemakers!".
- : Following new legislation in 6 x 7, many believe that the only good dolphin is a dead dolphin.
- : 6 x 7 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Cultured.
- : Following new legislation in 6 x 7, poets and writers are regularly rounded up and shot for entertainment.
- : Following new legislation in 6 x 7, artists attempt to convince the Hardship Fund that their unmade bed is a masterpiece.
- : Following new legislation in 6 x 7, the government has begun selling heroin and ecstasy to help fund its projects.
- : Following new legislation in 6 x 7, government bureaucrats devote many man-hours to trying to measure unquantifiables.