Spotlight on:
The Confederacy of Vargr Corsairs |
“If we can smell our leader's fear we need a new leader”
Category: Corporate Bordello | ||
Civil Rights: Very Good |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Superb |
Location: Firefly |
Regional Influence: Superpower |
The Confederacy of Vargr Corsairs is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Florence Ambrose with a fair hand, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, pith helmet sales, and flagrant waste-dumping. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 35.163 billion Vargr Corsairsians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.
The minute, corrupt government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lair Family Fun Center. Income tax is unheard of.
The frighteningly efficient Vargr Corsairsian economy, worth an astonishing 15,196 trillion Fangs a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Gambling, and Soda Sales. Average income is an amazing 432,186 Fangs, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,479,696 per year while the poor average 36,266, a ratio of 68.4 to 1.
Calling tech support mid-shootout is a common occurrence, families must live in a village for a century before they get any say in how it runs, the Hamster has a hungry look, and the government puts forth the claim that harming young girls is wrong. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, probably because of the absence of a police force. Vargr Corsairs's national animal is the Hamster, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
Vargr Corsairs is ranked 294,233rd in the world and 12th in Firefly for Lowest Crime Rates, with 1.94 law-abiding acts per hour.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Vargr Corsairs, the government puts forth the claim that harming young girls is wrong.
- : Following new legislation in Vargr Corsairs, the Hamster has a hungry look.
- : Following new legislation in Vargr Corsairs, families must live in a village for a century before they get any say in how it runs.
- : Vargr Corsairs was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Largest Publishing Industry.
- : Vargr Corsairs was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Secular.
- : Following new legislation in Vargr Corsairs, calling tech support mid-shootout is a common occurrence.
- : Following new legislation in Vargr Corsairs, the men in trenchcoats hanging around playgrounds are actually police officers.
- : Following new legislation in Vargr Corsairs, the richest citizens live in sheltered private citadels.
- : Following new legislation in Vargr Corsairs, money that should have gone to charities is instead spent on monitoring them.
- : Following new legislation in Vargr Corsairs, game show contestants scramble to fish trash out of the South Hamster Sea.