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The Census Ministry of Vendiagram |
“Order Up!”
Category: Iron Fist Consumerists | ||
Civil Rights: Outlawed |
Economy: Powerhouse |
Political Freedoms: Unheard Of |
Location: The Union of Democratic States |
Regional Influence: Sprat |
The Census Ministry of Vendiagram is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Minister of the Census with an iron fist, and remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, frequent executions, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.337 billion Vendiagramians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Spirituality, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Circle One. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 44.0%.
The powerhouse Vendiagramian economy, worth 312 trillion Excel Cells a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Retail, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is 93,595 Excel Cells, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 649,534 per year while the poor average 4,718, a ratio of 137 to 1.
Politicians are often seen with soldiers pointing guns at their heads, science labs across the country languish in cobwebs as the government turns its attentions to spiritual matters, the Great Vendiagramian Desert is reputedly the most uninhabitable place in the region, and public shaming has become the favoured form of punishment. Crime is a serious problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Vendiagram's national animal is the Cell Function, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Sort Function.
Vendiagram is ranked 83,503rd in the world and 48th in The Union of Democratic States for Most Stationary, with 569.25142040108 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Vendiagram was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Crime Rates.
- : Vendiagram was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Devout.
- : Following new legislation in Vendiagram, public shaming has become the favoured form of punishment.
- : Following new legislation in Vendiagram, the Great Vendiagramian Desert is reputedly the most uninhabitable place in the region.
- : Following new legislation in Vendiagram, science labs across the country languish in cobwebs as the government turns its attentions to spiritual matters.
- : Following new legislation in Vendiagram, politicians are often seen with soldiers pointing guns at their heads.
- : Following new legislation in Vendiagram, it's not mass murder when the government does it.
- : Vendiagram was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Greatest Rich-Poor Divides and the Top 10% for Highest Crime Rates.
- : Following new legislation in Vendiagram, murder is sanctioned if the legal paperwork is filled out correctly.
- : Following new legislation in Vendiagram, pet owners want to know why their animals keep smiling at them.