Population | 2.174 billion |
Currency | Barter System |
Animal | People's Deer |
The People's Republic of Eat The Rich is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, ban on automobiles, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 2.174 billion citizens are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.
The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 72.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The large but inefficient Eat The Richian economy, worth 130 trillion Barter Systems a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. 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 60,076 Barter Systems, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Frequent fliers are obliged to submit to invasive security procedures by government security, citizens are remarkably well involved in the political process, judicial torture is outsourced overseas, and children are often punished for the sins of the fathers. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eat The Rich's national animal is the People's Deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Eat The Rich is ranked 242,506th in the world and 56th in Communist Allied Defense Organization for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -6.63 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Eat The Rich was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Influential and Highest Foreign Aid Spending.
- : Eat The Rich's influence in Communist Allied Defense Organization fell from "Instigator" to "Contender".
- : Eat The Rich was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Unexpected Death Rate.
- : Eat The Rich's influence in Communist Allied Defense Organization rose from "Contender" to "Instigator".
- : Eat The Rich was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Unexpected Death Rate.
- : Eat The Rich resigned from the World Assembly.
- : Eat The Rich's influence in Communist Allied Defense Organization rose from "Negotiator" to "Contender".
- : Eat The Rich lodged a message on the Communist Allied Defense Organization Regional Message Board.
- : Eat The Rich was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Unexpected Death Rate.
- : Eat The Rich was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Influential.