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The UPC of Centrist Card Farm 015 |
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Category: Corrupt Dictatorship | ||
Civil Rights: Below Average |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Few |
Location: Memeland United |
Regional Influence: Page |
The UPC of Centrist Card Farm 015 is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its prohibition of alcohol, free-roaming dinosaurs, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.211 billion Centrist Card Farm 015ians 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 Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 69.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Centrist Card Farm 015ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,259 trillion Cards 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 an impressive 174,632 Cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.
Studio executives abandon tragic stories of star-crossed lovers because "it's been done", the armed forces are locked in an expensive and bloody war abroad to stamp out possible terrorists, schoolchildren must pass a six-month Ethics and Safety Committee Assessment before they are allowed to mix baking soda and vinegar, and understaffed slavers offer highballs when asked to 'pass the screwdriver' during household maintenance. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Centrist Card Farm 015's national animal is the Raven, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
Centrist Card Farm 015 is ranked 24,152nd in the world and 144th in Memeland United for Lowest Crime Rates, with 86.55 law-abiding acts per hour.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Centrist Card Farm 015's influence in Memeland United rose from "Shoeshiner" to "Page".
- : Centrist Card Farm 015 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Average Incomes.
- : Centrist Card Farm 015 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Healthiest Citizens.
- : Centrist Card Farm 015 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Healthiest Citizens.
- : Centrist Card Farm 015 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Average Incomes.
- : Following new legislation in Centrist Card Farm 015, understaffed slavers offer highballs when asked to 'pass the screwdriver' during household maintenance.
- : Following new legislation in Centrist Card Farm 015, schoolchildren must pass a six-month Ethics and Safety Committee Assessment before they are allowed to mix baking soda and vinegar.
- : Following new legislation in Centrist Card Farm 015, the armed forces are locked in an expensive and bloody war abroad to stamp out possible terrorists.
- : Following new legislation in Centrist Card Farm 015, studio executives abandon tragic stories of star-crossed lovers because "it's been done".
- : Following new legislation in Centrist Card Farm 015, convicted crypto-miners are sent to the salt mines.