Population | 8.109 billion |
Currency | Bank |
Animal | Dead Parrot |
The Colony of Riemstagrad Kaarten Depot 17 is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its parental licensing program, compulsory military service, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.109 billion Riemstagrad Kaarten Depot 17ians 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, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 58.8%.
The frighteningly efficient Riemstagrad Kaarten Depot 17ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,068 trillion Banks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 131,807 Banks, with the richest citizens earning 8.7 times as much as the poorest.
Divorce is illegal, parents must decide between buying food and taking their children to the park, contemporary art museums showcase the latest in centuries-old art, and pharmaceutical companies emphatically promise that "your pills are in the mail" rather than admit any supply shortfall. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Riemstagrad Kaarten Depot 17's national animal is the Dead Parrot.
Riemstagrad Kaarten Depot 17 is ranked 150,493rd in the world and 6,767th in Lazarus for Most Beautiful Environments, with 514.58 pounds of wildlife per square mile.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Riemstagrad Kaarten Depot 17 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Black Market and Most Patriotic and the Top 10% for Highest Wealthy Incomes, Highest Economic Output, and Most Developed.
- : Riemstagrad Kaarten Depot 17's influence in Lazarus rose from "Hatchling" to "Newcomer".
- : Riemstagrad Kaarten Depot 17's influence in Lazarus rose from "Unproven" to "Hatchling".
- : Riemstagrad Kaarten Depot 17's influence in Lazarus rose from "Zero" to "Unproven".
- : Riemstagrad Kaarten Depot 17 was refounded in Lazarus.
- : Riemstagrad Kaarten Depot 17 ceased to exist in Osiris.
- : Riemstagrad Kaarten Depot 17 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Food Quality.
- : Riemstagrad Kaarten Depot 17 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Average Incomes and Most Efficient Economies.
- : Riemstagrad Kaarten Depot 17 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Economic Output.
- : Riemstagrad Kaarten Depot 17's influence in Osiris rose from "Unproven" to "Hatchling".