Spotlight on:
The Serenissima Repubblica of Merx Libera |
“Pro Prosperitate Mundi”
Category: Capitalist Paradise | ||
Civil Rights: Very Good |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Average |
Location: Capitalist Paradise |
Regional Influence: Shoeshiner |
The Serenissima Repubblica of Merx Libera is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, suspicion of poets, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 3.757 billion Merx Liberals are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.
The minute, corrupt, pro-business government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Industry, with Law & Order also on the agenda, while Environment and Welfare are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Emporium Centralis 🏦. Income tax is unheard of.
The frighteningly efficient Merx Liberan economy, worth 956 trillion Ducat 🥇s a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and dominated by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Soda Sales, and Information Technology. Average income is an amazing 254,460 Ducat 🥇s, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,390,800 per year while the poor average 23,800, a ratio of 58.4 to 1.
Heart attacks are regarded as a coming of age ritual, homeowners are evicted to make way for new runways, smog in Emporium Centralis 🏦 is so bad that fresh air bottles are sold by street vendors, and Merx Liberan-made cars tend to catch fire in people's driveways. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. Merx Libera's national animal is the Bullfrog 🐸, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
Merx Libera is ranked 139,290th in the world and 42nd in Capitalist Paradise for Safest, scoring 64.12 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Merx Libera was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Avoided, Highest Disposable Incomes, and Highest Wealthy Incomes and the Top 5% for Highest Average Incomes and Most Scientifically Advanced.
- : Following new legislation in Merx Libera, Merx Liberan-made cars tend to catch fire in people's driveways.
- : Following new legislation in Merx Libera, smog in Emporium Centralis 🏦 is so bad that fresh air bottles are sold by street vendors.
- : Following new legislation in Merx Libera, homeowners are evicted to make way for new runways.
- : Following new legislation in Merx Libera, heart attacks are regarded as a coming of age ritual.
- : Following new legislation in Merx Libera, Animal Liberationists are regularly arrested.
- : Following new legislation in Merx Libera, the government asks not what you can do for your country but what you can do to tidy their country homes.
- : Following new legislation in Merx Libera, nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers.
- : Following new legislation in Merx Libera, members of ethnic minorities are more often called "boy" or "girl" than by their actual names.
- : Following new legislation in Merx Libera, Little League matches are often attended by riot police with water cannon... just in case.