Spotlight on:
The Borderlands of Cardmania90079 |
“I'm Not Dead Yet!”
Category: Corrupt Dictatorship | ||
Civil Rights: Some |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Few |
Location: Lily |
Regional Influence: Apprentice |
The Borderlands of Cardmania90079 is a gargantuan, efficient nation, notable for its compulsory military service, enslaved workforce, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 10.838 billion Cardmania90079ians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.
The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 68.6%.
The frighteningly efficient Cardmania90079ian economy, worth a remarkable 2,068 trillion Bodies a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 190,837 Bodies, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 762,970 per year while the poor average 32,070, a ratio of 23.8 to 1.
Citizens with artificial limbs are forbidden to serve as beauty pageant judges, a serf by any other name works just as hard, the nation has an international reputation for compassion, and the government only invests in infrastructure after a natural disaster. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cardmania90079's national animal is the Human, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Cardmania90079 is ranked 116,766th in the world and 81st in Lily for Most Stationary, with 320.08105903688 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Cardmania90079's influence in Lily rose from "Squire" to "Apprentice".
- : Cardmania90079 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Wealthy Incomes and Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry.
- : Following new legislation in Cardmania90079, the government only invests in infrastructure after a natural disaster.
- : Following new legislation in Cardmania90079, the nation has an international reputation for compassion.
- : Following new legislation in Cardmania90079, a serf by any other name works just as hard.
- : Following new legislation in Cardmania90079, citizens with artificial limbs are forbidden to serve as beauty pageant judges.
- : Following new legislation in Cardmania90079, the government keeps introducing new foreign species to combat the previous ones it has introduced.
- : Following new legislation in Cardmania90079, there has been a rapid increase of noise complaints over the sound of buzzing bees.
- : Following new legislation in Cardmania90079, liberals and conservatives try to disqualify each other's candidates on the grounds that "their ideas would never work in the real world".
- : Following new legislation in Cardmania90079, orphans would rather live their life of luxury than be adopted by prospective parents.