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The Transformer of Leozack |
“ughhhhh do soemthing!”
Category: Authoritarian Democracy | ||
Civil Rights: Few |
Economy: Powerhouse |
Political Freedoms: Below Average |
Location: Kelios |
Regional Influence: Shoeshiner |
The Transformer of Leozack is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, infamous sell-swords, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 6.247 billion --s are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.
The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 65.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The powerhouse DOO SOEMTHING economy, worth 601 trillion bordeoooooms 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, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Woodchip 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 96,362 bordeoooooms, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.
Maximum security fish farms leave caged salmon pining for the fjords, renewable energy projects have ground to a halt, laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts, and devotion to God is only skin-deep. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Leozack's national animal is the --, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.
Leozack is ranked 51,759th in the world and 13th in Kelios for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 3,818.61 on the Gilded Widget Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Leozack's influence in Kelios rose from "Sprat" to "Shoeshiner".
- : Following new legislation in Leozack, devotion to God is only skin-deep.
- : Following new legislation in Leozack, laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts.
- : Following new legislation in Leozack, renewable energy projects have ground to a halt.
- : Following new legislation in Leozack, maximum security fish farms leave caged salmon pining for the fjords.
- : Following new legislation in Leozack, road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans.
- : Leozack's influence in Kelios rose from "Minnow" to "Sprat".
- : Leozack's influence in Kelios rose from "Nipper" to "Minnow".
- : Leozack resigned from the World Assembly.
- : Leozack's influence in Kelios rose from "Zero" to "Nipper".