Spotlight on:
The Republic of Urial95 |
“Twirling Toward Freedom”
Category: Iron Fist Consumerists | ||
Civil Rights: Unheard Of |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Few |
Location: Lazarus |
Regional Influence: Sprat |
The Republic of Urial95 is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, ritual sacrifices, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.334 billion Urial95ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."
The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 76.2%.
The frighteningly efficient Urial95ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,751 trillion pesos a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. Average income is an amazing 238,864 pesos, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 896,077 per year while the poor average 44,498, a ratio of 20.1 to 1.
School lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp, traffic jams are a common sight due to construction work from a massive overhaul of the nation's freeways, caroling is considered a public disturbance, and phone taps are frequently carried out by the police. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Urial95's national animal is the cow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Urial95 is ranked 11,795th in the world and 807th in Lazarus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 98.12 law-abiding acts per hour.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Urial95 was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Largest Black Market and the Top 10% for Most Conservative and Most Advanced Public Education.
- : Following new legislation in Urial95, phone taps are frequently carried out by the police.
- : Following new legislation in Urial95, caroling is considered a public disturbance.
- : Following new legislation in Urial95, traffic jams are a common sight due to construction work from a massive overhaul of the nation's freeways.
- : Following new legislation in Urial95, school lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp.
- : Following new legislation in Urial95, dealers go from pushing drugs to pushing up daisies.
- : Following new legislation in Urial95, tardiness has increased after carpooling was classified as a criminal offense.
- : Following new legislation in Urial95, unemployed political consultants and advertisers spend every election night weeping for the good old days.
- : Following new legislation in Urial95, ancestry test results arrive bundled with patent applications.
- : Following new legislation in Urial95, Leader's peyote-induced "let's all just be friends" speech is trending world-wide.