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The Techno-Priesthood of Pyatingrad |
“No Great Advance is Made Without Great Sacrifice.”
| Category: Psychotic Dictatorship | ||
| Civil Rights: Unheard Of |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Outlawed |
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Location: United Commonwealth |
Regional Influence: Squire |
The Techno-Priesthood of Pyatingrad is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Fabricator-General Fyodor Karamov with an iron fist, and renowned for its strictly enforced bedtime, disturbing lack of elderly people, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.736 billion Pyatingradians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."
The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Novosibirska. The average income tax rate is 57.3%.
The frighteningly efficient Pyatingradian economy, worth a remarkable 3,809 trillion Ducats 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 an amazing 354,856 Ducats, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.
Tumbleweeds are seen blowing through the nation's airspace, wealthy pranksters dump refuse on unsuspecting citizens from up high, the big red machine has ground to a halt, and tax-payers are funding ever more extravagant movie projects. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pyatingrad's national animal is the Servitor, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The Cult Mechanicus.
Pyatingrad is ranked 2,995th in the world and 2nd in United Commonwealth for Most Cultured, scoring 213 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.
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Most Recent Government Activity:
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Pyatingrad was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Rudest Citizens.
- : Following new legislation in Pyatingrad, tax-payers are funding ever more extravagant movie projects.
- : Following new legislation in Pyatingrad, the big red machine has ground to a halt.
- : Following new legislation in Pyatingrad, wealthy pranksters dump refuse on unsuspecting citizens from up high.
- : Pyatingrad was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Cultured.
- : Following new legislation in Pyatingrad, tumbleweeds are seen blowing through the nation's airspace.
- : Following new legislation in Pyatingrad, people faint regularly as they get stuck with compulsory vaccinations.
- : Following new legislation in Pyatingrad, it is well recognised that you can't sustain communism without a bit of spirit.
- : Following new legislation in Pyatingrad, the diplomatic corps stinks.
- : Following new legislation in Pyatingrad, terrorists who are 17th cousins with the ex-wives of half-brothers of citizens are now exempt from the immigration ban.
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