Population | 8.376 billion |
Currency | spice |
Animal | sandworm |
The Protectorate of Spice Harvester 151 is a colossal, orderly nation, notable for its public floggings, free-roaming dinosaurs, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.376 billion Spice Harvester 151ians 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 Education, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 51.0%.
The frighteningly efficient Spice Harvester 151ian economy, worth 885 trillion spices 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 large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Woodchip Exports. 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 an impressive 105,749 spices, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 456,428 per year while the poor average 15,608, a ratio of 29.2 to 1.
On-call doctors who check their pagers during movies are banned from cinemas for life, rumor has it that Leader has won three lotteries in a row, the word 'elite' appears as a synonym for various insults in the Spice Harvester 151ian Colonial Thesaurus, and the police turn a blind eye to desecration if it's done in the name of religion or protest. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spice Harvester 151's national animal is the sandworm.
Spice Harvester 151 is ranked 75,426th in the world and 330th in Jihad Army of the Emperor for Most Stationary, with 626.99023761488 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Spice Harvester 151, the police turn a blind eye to desecration if it's done in the name of religion or protest.
- : Following new legislation in Spice Harvester 151, the word 'elite' appears as a synonym for various insults in the Spice Harvester 151ian Colonial Thesaurus.
- : Following new legislation in Spice Harvester 151, rumor has it that Leader has won three lotteries in a row.
- : Following new legislation in Spice Harvester 151, on-call doctors who check their pagers during movies are banned from cinemas for life.
- : Spice Harvester 151 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Black Market.
- : Following new legislation in Spice Harvester 151, genetic screening weeds out citizens whose legs don't bend easily at the knee.
- : Following new legislation in Spice Harvester 151, it's not just poseurs who wear oversized sound-cancelling headphones as they walk the city streets.
- : Following new legislation in Spice Harvester 151, nobody ever questions the unquestioned rule that questions must always be asked.
- : Following new legislation in Spice Harvester 151, cane fights are a common sight in nursing homes.
- : Following new legislation in Spice Harvester 151, parents are always up to speed on the latest childcare techniques.