Spotlight on:
The Masterpiece of London Waterloo Station |
“Trains always run on our time”
Category: Moralistic Democracy | ||
Civil Rights: Unheard Of |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Some |
Location: Waterloo Station |
Regional Influence: Hermit |
The Masterpiece of London Waterloo Station is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Stationmaster Jason Murphy with an even hand, and remarkable for its teetotalling pirates, compulsory military service, and lack of airports. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 15.786 billion railway workers 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, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of London. The average income tax rate is 65.5%.
The frighteningly efficient London Waterloo Stationian economy, worth a remarkable 2,693 trillion pounds a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an impressive 170,645 pounds, with the richest citizens earning 5.2 times as much as the poorest.
Unpackaged foodstuffs rot on store shelves, baize on snooker tables has been stripped for "appearing too hedonistic", international collectors know that a grease-stain on a work of art probably means it's passed through London Waterloo Station, and people are turning themselves into worm food. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. London Waterloo Station's national animal is the lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is TRAINS.
London Waterloo Station is ranked 288,893rd in the world and 1st in Waterloo Station for Most Beautiful Environments, with 2.91 pounds of wildlife per square mile.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in London Waterloo Station, people are turning themselves into worm food.
- : Following new legislation in London Waterloo Station, international collectors know that a grease-stain on a work of art probably means it's passed through London Waterloo Station.
- : London Waterloo Station was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Largest Black Market and Most Avoided and the Top 5% for Most Advanced Public Education, Highest Economic Output, and Most Primitive.
- : Following new legislation in London Waterloo Station, baize on snooker tables has been stripped for "appearing too hedonistic".
- : Following new legislation in London Waterloo Station, unpackaged foodstuffs rot on store shelves.
- : Following new legislation in London Waterloo Station, gambling addicts regularly lose their families' nest eggs at Native London Waterloo Stationian casinos.
- : Following new legislation in London Waterloo Station, the nation's ambassadors often conduct their business in jail cells.
- : London Waterloo Station was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Advanced Public Education.
- : Following new legislation in London Waterloo Station, autumn landscape paintings feature men stripping leaves from bare branches with a vacuum.
- : Following new legislation in London Waterloo Station, it is still not known if the commander in chief outranks the supreme commander.