Spotlight on:

The Borderlands of Lucerne

“There are still many things not on top of other things.”

Overview • Policies • People • Government • Economy • Rank • Trend • Cards

The Borderlands of Lucerne is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and complete lack of public education. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 39.353 billion Lucerneans 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 tiny government prioritizes Industry, with Defense and Spirituality also on the agenda, while Social Policy and Environment receive no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Lucernean economy, worth a remarkable 3,901 trillion lakes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 99,138 lakes, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 298,755 per year while the poor average 25,647, a ratio of 11.6 to 1.

The number of students attending university has reached a record high, truth is often impossible to tell from fiction on the evening news, it is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws, and frequent fliers are obliged to submit to invasive security procedures by government security. Crime is moderate, probably because of the absence of a police force. Lucerne's national animal is the pantomime horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Lucerne is ranked 289,861^st in the world and 59^th in New York for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring -8.37 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.

Top
1%Top
5%Top
10%Top
5%Top
10%