Spotlight on:

“Flying High”

Overview • Policies • People • Government • Economy • Rank • Trend • Nuke Control • Cards

The State of Warzone Correspondent is a gargantuan, efficient nation, notable for its complete lack of public education and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 27.846 billion Warzone Correspondentians 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, outspoken government, or what there is of one, is primarily concerned with Industry, although Law & Order is also considered important, while Welfare and Spirituality aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.9%.

The powerhouse Warzone Correspondentian economy, worth a remarkable 1,011 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Pizza Delivery, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 36,308 betales, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 105,153 per year while the poor average 9,935, a ratio of 10.6 to 1.

Voting is voluntary, punitive tariffs protect local industry, the tenet of free speech is held dear, and Warzone Correspondent has designated Capital Heights as its capital city. Crime is a serious problem. Warzone Correspondent's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Warzone Correspondent is ranked 9,364^th in the world and 1^st in Warzone for Largest Populations, with 27.8 billion capita.