Population | 23.058 billion |
Currency | Sovereign |
Animal | Golden Eagle |
The LKE Free Thought Controller of Smartzez is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, complete lack of prisons, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 23.058 billion Smartzezians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."
The enormous, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 65.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The strong Smartzezian economy, worth a remarkable 1,207 trillion Sovereigns 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 black market in Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, Information Technology, and Trout Farming. 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 52,358 Sovereigns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.
Careless Maxémon Trainers have been the cause of numerous search and rescue operations, airplanes have giant grilles on their noses to knock drones out of their path, what citizens give with one hand they take away with the other, and international collectors know that a grease-stain on a work of art probably means it's passed through Smartzez. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Smartzez's national animal is the Golden Eagle.
Smartzez is ranked 115,000th in the world and 10th in Polis for Most Primitive, scoring -30.5 on the Scary Big Number Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Smartzez was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Valuable International Artwork and Highest Foreign Aid Spending and the Top 10% for Highest Economic Output, Most World Assembly Endorsements, and Most Stationary.
- : Smartzez's influence in Polis fell from "Enforcer" to "Dealmaker".
- : Smartzez's influence in Polis rose from "Dealmaker" to "Enforcer".
- : Smartzez's influence in Polis fell from "Enforcer" to "Dealmaker".
- : Smartzez was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Stationary.
- : Smartzez was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Stationary.
- : Smartzez's influence in Polis fell from "Eminence Grise" to "Enforcer".
- : Smartzez's influence in Polis rose from "Enforcer" to "Eminence Grise".
- : Smartzez's influence in Polis fell from "Eminence Grise" to "Enforcer".
- : Smartzez changed its national animal to "Golden Eagle".