The Federal Republic of Lion548 is a very large, genial nation, renowned for its lack of airports, frequent executions, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate population of 452 million Lion548ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.
The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 35.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.
The strong Lion548ian economy, worth 13.6 trillion catnips a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Cheese Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 30,055 catnips, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.
Police conduct weekly raids looking for contraband cheeseburgers, theatre may or may not be changing for the better but it is being changed for good, murderers frequently escape punishment by claiming they were protecting their honour, and beggars lack pockets for spare change. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force. Lion548's national animal is the Meowing Cats, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Lion548 is ranked 282,706th in the world and 1,072nd in Concord for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -6.68 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Lion548, beggars lack pockets for spare change.
- : Following new legislation in Lion548, murderers frequently escape punishment by claiming they were protecting their honour.
- : Following new legislation in Lion548, theatre may or may not be changing for the better but it is being changed for good.
- : Following new legislation in Lion548, police conduct weekly raids looking for contraband cheeseburgers.
- : Following new legislation in Lion548, treason is relative.
- : Following new legislation in Lion548, giggling elementary school newspaper reporters want to know why Leader is a silly poophead.
- : Following new legislation in Lion548, nobody looks each other in the eye at neighborhood block parties any more.
- : Following new legislation in Lion548, the new foreign policy is "why bother invading neighbours when they can be bought wholesale?".
- : Following new legislation in Lion548, the nation's streets have become a winter wonderland of salt and sand.
- : Following new legislation in Lion548, scientists take credit every time it rains in Concord.