Population | 22.77 billion |
Currency | Gold |
Animal | Elephant |
The Twenty-Eight of 28 is a gargantuan, cultured nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, pith helmet sales, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 22.77 billion 28ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.
It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Policy, Education, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 92.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient 28ian economy, worth a remarkable 2,712 trillion Golds a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, extremely specialized black market in Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 119,113 Golds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Leader's media campaigns take a hiatus around exam week, building a phallus out of Minecraft blocks counts as indecent exposure, candlelit dinners are less romantic with a flickering LED, and the government tells its citizens to 'forgive and forget'. Crime, especially youth-related, is moderate, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. 28's national animal is the Elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
28 is ranked 234,705th in the world and 7,400th in Lazarus for Most Stationary, with 23.15438101452 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : 28 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Longest Average Lifespans.
- : 28's influence in Lazarus rose from "Unproven" to "Hatchling".
- : 28's influence in Lazarus rose from "Zero" to "Unproven".
- : 28 was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Advanced Public Education, the Top 5% for Highest Poor Incomes, and the Top 10% for Most Cultured and Highest Foreign Aid Spending.
- : 28 was refounded in Lazarus.
- : 28 ceased to exist in The Hole To Hide In.
- : 28 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Secular.
- : 28 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Secular.
- : 28 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Secular.
- : 28 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Secular.