Spotlight on:
The Conglomerate Corporations of BNL Corporation |
“Everything, all the time!”
Category: Capitalizt | ||
Civil Rights: World Benchmark |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Some |
Location: Lazarus |
Regional Influence: Newcomer |
The Conglomerate Corporations of BNL Corporation is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Global CEO Shelby Forthright with an even hand, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, otherworldly petting zoo, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 13.758 billion BNL Consumers enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.
The minute, corrupt, liberal, pro-business government, or what there is of one, is effectively ruled by the Department of Industry, although Defense is also considered important, while Welfare and Spirituality are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of London. Income tax is unheard of.
The frighteningly efficient BNL Consumer economy, worth a remarkable 3,788 trillion BNL Bucks a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Soda Sales, and Gambling. Average income is an amazing 275,342 BNL Bucks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.8 times as much as the poorest.
News headlines suggest that Global CEO Shelby Forthright has a sideline in guinea pig pimping, it turns out you can put a price on sporting integrity, children have only the most basic of education, and the space program has been reduced to Global CEO Shelby Forthright's nephew playing with a cardboard space shuttle. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. BNL Corporation's national animal is the BNL Consumer, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
BNL Corporation is ranked 289,896th in the world and 11,255th in Lazarus for Most Beautiful Environments, with 2.07 pounds of wildlife per square mile.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : BNL Corporation was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Highest Disposable Incomes, Most Avoided, and Highest Crime Rates and the Top 5% for Most Scientifically Advanced and Highest Average Incomes.
- : BNL Corporation was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Poor Incomes.
- : BNL Corporation's influence in Lazarus rose from "Hatchling" to "Newcomer".
- : BNL Corporation's influence in Lazarus rose from "Unproven" to "Hatchling".
- : BNL Corporation's influence in Lazarus rose from "Zero" to "Unproven".
- : BNL Corporation was refounded in Lazarus.
- : BNL Corporation ceased to exist in Osiris.
- : BNL Corporation was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Populations.
- : BNL Corporation's influence in Osiris rose from "Unproven" to "Hatchling".
- : BNL Corporation's influence in Osiris rose from "Zero" to "Unproven".