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The Trustworthy Corporate Hydra of Velstado |
“A gun in every hand, A tank in Every garage”
Category: Anarchy | ||
Civil Rights: Excellent |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Superb |
Location: Pax Britannia |
Regional Influence: Squire |
The Trustworthy Corporate Hydra of Velstado is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Chairman John Morgan with a fair hand, and remarkable for its enslaved workforce, flagrant waste-dumping, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 21.086 billion Human Resourceses live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.
The minute, corrupt, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hadley's Hope. Income tax is unheard of.
The frighteningly efficient Velstadoan economy, worth a remarkable 6,851 trillion Aliens 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 Retail. Average income is an amazing 324,945 Aliens, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 3,013,286 per year while the poor average 3,310, a ratio of 910 to 1.
Becoming a missionary is a sure-fire route to martyrdom, a suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League, hidden bedroom-cams are installed to catch mothers doing their kids' homework, and preservative-laden Velstadoan cheeses will be as edible when archaeologists dig them up next millennium. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Velstado's national animal is the Xenomorph, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Laissez Faire Capitalism.
Velstado is ranked 117,295th in the world and 14th in Pax Britannia for Most Stationary, with 314.65589584232 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Velstado was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Black Market.
- : Velstado was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Black Market.
- : Velstado was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Populations.
- : Velstado was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Black Market.
- : Velstado was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Dead.
- : Velstado was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Zombies and the Top 10% for Most Dead and Most Survivors.
- : Velstado was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Populations.
- : Velstado's influence in Pax Britannia rose from "Hatchling" to "Squire".
- : Velstado relocated from Lazarus to Pax Britannia.
- : Velstado was refounded in Lazarus.