Spotlight on:
The Empire of Italnovia |
“Für Thron, Für Reich, Für Vaterland!”
Category: Moralistic Democracy | ||
Civil Rights: Unheard Of |
Economy: Good |
Political Freedoms: Excellent |
Location: The North Pacific |
Regional Influence: Nipper |
The Empire of Italnovia is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 406 million Italnovians 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 medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Oswalburg. The average income tax rate is 29.4%.
The Italnovian economy, worth 22.3 trillion Italnovian Marks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Information Technology. Average income is 54,957 Italnovian Marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.2 times as much as the poorest.
People make a career out of medical voyeurism, politicians spend more time in courtrooms than in Parliament, the government regularly reassures citizens that there are no monsters under their beds, and torture is commonly used to extract information from suspected criminals. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Italnovia's national animal is the White Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.
Italnovia is ranked 178,624th in the world and 3,141st in The North Pacific for Most Ignorant Citizens, with 3.3 missed references per hour.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Italnovia was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Conservative.
- : Italnovia changed its national motto to "Für Thron, Für Reich, Für Vaterland!".
- : Following new legislation in Italnovia, torture is commonly used to extract information from suspected criminals.
- : Italnovia was reclassified from "Conservative Democracy" to "Moralistic Democracy".
- : Following new legislation in Italnovia, the government regularly reassures citizens that there are no monsters under their beds.
- : Following new legislation in Italnovia, politicians spend more time in courtrooms than in Parliament.
- : Following new legislation in Italnovia, people make a career out of medical voyeurism.
- : Following new legislation in Italnovia, the phrase 'spreading like wildfire' is no longer in the public lexicon.
- : Following new legislation in Italnovia, terrified tympanists are finding themselves on the front lines armed only with kettledrums.
- : Following new legislation in Italnovia, jailbreaking is the best-selling book category of the year.