Spotlight on:
The Holy Empire of The Aelfberg |
“Sharpen Your Ears”
Category: Liberal Democratic Socialists | ||
Civil Rights: Below Average |
Economy: Fair |
Political Freedoms: Excellent |
Location: the South Pacific |
Regional Influence: Shoeshiner |
The Holy Empire of The Aelfberg is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, compulsory military service, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, democratic population of 513 million Aelfbergians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.
The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Twinne Trees. The average income tax rate is 75.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The sizeable but underdeveloped Aelfbergian economy, worth 21.7 trillion Rings a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 42,263 Rings, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security, recent protests against birds flying too low have resulted in bloodshed, tabloids publicly shun nurses for not calling home on the weekends, and drug deals return to the streets as legions of undercover officers stalk the dark web. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Aelfberg's national animal is the Axolotl, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.
The Aelfberg is ranked 274,449th in the world and 4,405th in the South Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -180.86 on the Scary Big Number Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : The Aelfberg was endorsed by The Armed Autocracy of North Caldwell.
- : Following new legislation in The Aelfberg, drug deals return to the streets as legions of undercover officers stalk the dark web.
- : Following new legislation in The Aelfberg, tabloids publicly shun nurses for not calling home on the weekends.
- : Following new legislation in The Aelfberg, recent protests against birds flying too low have resulted in bloodshed.
- : The Aelfberg was reclassified from "Democratic Socialists" to "Liberal Democratic Socialists".
- : Following new legislation in The Aelfberg, pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security.
- : Following new legislation in The Aelfberg, the comic book series 'Leader and the Villainous Corporate Cronies' is a best-seller.
- : Following new legislation in The Aelfberg, government ministers sport new billboards that read 'Will Trade Votes for Private Members' Bill Support'.
- : Following new legislation in The Aelfberg, the nation's democracy attracts huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- : Following new legislation in The Aelfberg, citizens select which government department gets their income tax Rings each year.
World Assembly
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