Spotlight on:
The Commonwealth of Grelmarae Schillandstan |
“Mission Accomplished”
Category: Moralistic Democracy | ||
Civil Rights: Few |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Some |
Location: The Empire of Mare Nostrum |
Regional Influence: Enforcer |
The Commonwealth of Grelmarae Schillandstan is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Greta Shrewd with an even hand, and renowned for its infamous sell-swords, zero percent divorce rate, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 11.274 billion Grelmarae Schillandstanians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.
The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Vegas. The average income tax rate is 96.5%.
The frighteningly efficient Grelmarae Schillandstanian economy, worth a remarkable 3,013 trillion francs a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 267,328 francs, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,064,539 per year while the poor average 45,219, a ratio of 23.5 to 1.
Vital intelligence-gathering activities are put on hold as agents return home for seduction training and advanced poker instruction, X-Files ratings have hit an all-time low, new mothers can pay for their weekly grocery shop with a bottle of breast milk, and the new foreign policy is "why bother invading neighbours when they can be bought wholesale?". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Grelmarae Schillandstan's national animal is the cow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Gingerbread Baking.
Grelmarae Schillandstan is ranked 222,010th in the world and 9th in The Empire of Mare Nostrum for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -5.1 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Grelmarae Schillandstan was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Cheese Export Sector.
- : Following new legislation in Grelmarae Schillandstan, the new foreign policy is "why bother invading neighbours when they can be bought wholesale?".
- : Following new legislation in Grelmarae Schillandstan, new mothers can pay for their weekly grocery shop with a bottle of breast milk.
- : Following new legislation in Grelmarae Schillandstan, X-Files ratings have hit an all-time low.
- : Following new legislation in Grelmarae Schillandstan, vital intelligence-gathering activities are put on hold as agents return home for seduction training and advanced poker instruction.
- : Grelmarae Schillandstan was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Highest Wealthy Incomes, Most Advanced Public Education, and Largest Black Market and the Top 5% for Highest Economic Output and Highest Average Incomes.
- : Following new legislation in Grelmarae Schillandstan, the nation's faithful often say there is a higher power watching over them.
- : Following new legislation in Grelmarae Schillandstan, warfare increasingly resembles a video game.
- : Following new legislation in Grelmarae Schillandstan, recreational drug businesses are regularly pruned if they grow above the maximum legal size.
- : Following new legislation in Grelmarae Schillandstan, diplomatic missions typically end with a flurry of childish insults, accusations and phlegm.