Spotlight on:
The Quercus of Tall Oaks |
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Category: Moralistic Democracy | ||
Civil Rights: Rare |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Some |
Location: Forest |
Regional Influence: Sprat |
The Quercus of Tall Oaks is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Quercus with an even hand, and renowned for its enslaved workforce, pith helmet sales, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.066 billion Tall Oaksians 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 Industry, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Buxton-with-Lamas. The average income tax rate is 70.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Tall Oaksian economy, worth a remarkable 1,345 trillion Acorns a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 166,842 Acorns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.
Child labor has been outlawed, conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings, parents giddily refuse to pay their toddlers' medical bills, and police are saying "bye book" to "by the book". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tall Oaks's national animal is the Red Squirrel, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Acornism.
Tall Oaks is ranked 53,035th in the world and 117th in Forest for Most Stationary, with 834.04688287632 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Tall Oaks, police are saying "bye book" to "by the book".
- : Following new legislation in Tall Oaks, parents giddily refuse to pay their toddlers' medical bills.
- : Tall Oaks was reclassified from "Authoritarian Democracy" to "Moralistic Democracy".
- : Following new legislation in Tall Oaks, conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings.
- : Following new legislation in Tall Oaks, child labor has been outlawed.
- : Tall Oaks was reclassified from "Moralistic Democracy" to "Authoritarian Democracy".
- : Following new legislation in Tall Oaks, abortions are routinely performed in the nation's hospitals.
- : Following new legislation in Tall Oaks, business ambassadors offer bong tokes to foreign leaders.
- : Following new legislation in Tall Oaks, the government has officially clarified that "wee on your hands to save time" does not count as proper hygiene.
- : Following new legislation in Tall Oaks, local officials love to claim the protection of their Big Brother.