Spotlight on:
The Incorporated States of Euro 178 |
“Motto”
Category: Authoritarian Democracy | ||
Civil Rights: Few |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Average |
Location: Memeland United |
Regional Influence: Shoeshiner |
The Incorporated States of Euro 178 is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, public floggings, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 6.527 billion Euro 178ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.
The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 77.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Euro 178ian economy, worth 781 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 a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, Furniture Restoration, and Cheese Exports. 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 119,770 Cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.
Posh restaurants scatter glass fragments on the dining room floor to keep out barefoot undesirables, families are left homeless as entire suburbs are bulldozed on the whim of tribal chiefs, aggravated apostrophe abusers are admonished and assaulted, and prisoners can't do number twos without their "toilet buddy" present. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Euro 178's national animal is the Raven, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
Euro 178 is ranked 146,679th in the world and 1,019th in Memeland United for Most Stationary, with 177.363948987 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Euro 178 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Manufacturing Sector.
- : Euro 178 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Manufacturing Sector.
- : Euro 178 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Manufacturing Sector.
- : Following new legislation in Euro 178, prisoners can't do number twos without their "toilet buddy" present.
- : Following new legislation in Euro 178, aggravated apostrophe abusers are admonished and assaulted.
- : Following new legislation in Euro 178, families are left homeless as entire suburbs are bulldozed on the whim of tribal chiefs.
- : Following new legislation in Euro 178, posh restaurants scatter glass fragments on the dining room floor to keep out barefoot undesirables.
- : Following new legislation in Euro 178, sneezing pedestrians are grabbed by alley-lurking doctors.
- : Euro 178 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Manufacturing Sector.
- : Following new legislation in Euro 178, knitters are arrested for carrying needles in their bags.