The Republic of Ioe is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its closed borders, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 718 million Ioeans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.
The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 27.4%.
The strong Ioean economy, worth 40.8 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 56,821 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.
The people are famous throughout the region for their perfect yellow teeth, the military is slashing spending on conventional arms and diverting it to spending on prosthetic arms, the government denies any involvement in the release of the Hot Load computer virus, and money is being desperately pumped into the ruined economy. Crime is relatively low, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ioe's national animal is the parrot.
Ioe is ranked 189,159th in the world and 453rd in Izern for Greatest Rich-Poor Divides, with 3.27 Rich To Poor Income Ratio.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Ioe, money is being desperately pumped into the ruined economy.
- : Following new legislation in Ioe, the government denies any involvement in the release of the Hot Load computer virus.
- : Following new legislation in Ioe, the military is slashing spending on conventional arms and diverting it to spending on prosthetic arms.
- : Following new legislation in Ioe, the people are famous throughout the region for their perfect yellow teeth.
- : Following new legislation in Ioe, auditors are gutting every governmental department.
- : Following new legislation in Ioe, those who don't have a bean to spend don't know a bean about Brasilistanian coffee beans.
- : Following new legislation in Ioe, military pistols are more secure than the national treasury.
- : Following new legislation in Ioe, delivery truck companies use hospital parking lots to store 16-wheelers.
- : Following new legislation in Ioe, the country's population is reported with a margin of error of several billions.
- : Following new legislation in Ioe, nature reserves often contain artificial waterfalls and concrete paths.