Spotlight on:
The Armed Republic of Tierra Robada |
“Sapientia”
Category: Corrupt Dictatorship | ||
Civil Rights: Average |
Economy: Weak |
Political Freedoms: Few |
Location: YARR |
Regional Influence: Power |
The Armed Republic of Tierra Robada is a huge, orderly nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 432 million Tierra Robadans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.
The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Environment, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 57.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The sizeable but sluggish Tierra Robadan economy, worth 12.3 trillion pesos 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 a slick, highly efficient black market in Information Technology, Pizza Delivery, Woodchip Exports, and Tourism. 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 28,422 pesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Heartfelt sentiments are mercilessly marketed by a million-peso treacle machine, digital novelty coins make for surprising vanguards of the revolution, children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again, and hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock". Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tierra Robada's national animal is the whale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.
Tierra Robada is ranked 217,681st in the world and 3rd in YARR for Most Influential, scoring 66 on the Soft Power Disbursement Rating.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Tierra Robada's influence in YARR fell from "Superpower" to "Power".
- : Tierra Robada's influence in YARR rose from "Zero" to "Superpower".
- : Tierra Robada relocated from Flanelistan to YARR.
- : Tierra Robada was cleansed by a Level 2 Specialist Tactical Zombie Elimination Squad from The Empire of Fuscola, killing 1 million zombies.
- : Tierra Robada was cleansed by a Level 5 Invasion Tactical Zombie Elimination Squad from The Republic of Simoland10, killing 1 million zombies.
- : Tierra Robada was cleansed by a Level 5 Invasion Tactical Zombie Elimination Squad from The Republic of Simoland10, killing 1 million zombies.
- : Tierra Robada was cleansed by a Level 2 Specialist Tactical Zombie Elimination Squad from The Empire of Fuscola, killing 1 million zombies.
- : Tierra Robada was cleansed by a Level 5 Invasion Tactical Zombie Elimination Squad from The Republic of Simoland10, killing 1 million zombies.
- : Tierra Robada was cleansed by a Level 2 Specialist Tactical Zombie Elimination Squad from The Empire of Fuscola, killing 1 million zombies.
- : Tierra Robada was cleansed by a Level 5 Invasion Tactical Zombie Elimination Squad from The Republic of Simoland10, killing 1 million zombies.