Spotlight on:
The Dominion of Hydroreactive |
“Hydra controls the hydroreactive”
Category: Iron Fist Consumerists | ||
Civil Rights: Some |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Outlawed |
Location: Esquarium |
Regional Influence: Eminence Grise |
The Dominion of Hydroreactive is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Baron Wolfgang von Strucker with an iron fist, and notable for its flagrant waste-dumping, free-roaming dinosaurs, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 18.021 billion Hydroreactives are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."
The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hydra HQ. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 92.4%.
The frighteningly efficient Hydroreactivean economy, worth a remarkable 4,142 trillion Hydra's Hydrogens 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, quite specialized black market in Retail, Uranium Mining, Soda Sales, and Book Publishing. 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 amazing 229,883 Hydra's Hydrogens, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 762,603 per year while the poor average 51,720, a ratio of 14.7 to 1.
The practice of capital punishment proves divisive, the legal system for the political class is completely separate from the one for normal citizens, the "Dreadnowt" is the pride and joy of the Hydroreactivean Navy, and most ambassadors from Hydroreactive retire only a few years after being appointed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hydroreactive's national animal is the Hail Hydra, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Hydra.
Hydroreactive is ranked 287,193rd in the world and 3rd in Esquarium for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -16.91 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Hydroreactive was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Largest Black Market and Most Avoided and the Top 5% for Highest Economic Output, Highest Wealthy Incomes, and Highest Average Incomes.
- : Following new legislation in Hydroreactive, most ambassadors from Hydroreactive retire only a few years after being appointed.
- : Following new legislation in Hydroreactive, the "Dreadnowt" is the pride and joy of the Hydroreactivean Navy.
- : Following new legislation in Hydroreactive, the legal system for the political class is completely separate from the one for normal citizens.
- : Following new legislation in Hydroreactive, the practice of capital punishment proves divisive.
- : Following new legislation in Hydroreactive, airplanes have giant grilles on their noses to knock drones out of their path.
- : Following new legislation in Hydroreactive, tax evaders are regularly visited by agents of the Hydroreactive Blood Tithe.
- : Following new legislation in Hydroreactive, excessive wheelchair ramps on government buildings have been compared to theme park attractions.
- : Following new legislation in Hydroreactive, pet owners must make a payment if their charges leave a deposit.
- : Following new legislation in Hydroreactive, taxpayer-funded government ads are promoting Brancaland as a premier filming location.