Population | 10.146 billion |
Capital | The Monitoring Room |
Leader | The Keeper |
Currency | Gold-pressed Latinum Strip |
Animal | Singing Plant |
The Telepathic Humanoids of Talos 4 is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by The Keeper with an iron fist, and notable for its ban on automobiles, state-planned economy, and irreverence towards religion. The cynical, humorless population of 10.146 billion Specimens are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."
The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Monitoring Room. The average income tax rate is 77.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The Talosian economy, worth 770 trillion Gold-pressed Latinum Strips 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, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. 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 75,923 Gold-pressed Latinum Strips, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
The military is slashing spending on conventional arms and diverting it to spending on prosthetic arms, state media insists that The Keeper is the most fashionable leader in United Earth Space Probe Agency, the default state for Talos 4 is default, and a proud mining community is considering a rebellion after the Capital officially renamed them 'District XII'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Talos 4's national animal is the Singing Plant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Talos 4 is ranked 17,668th in the world and 2nd in United Earth Space Probe Agency for Most Stationary, with 1,705.66506809588 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Talos 4 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Advanced Public Education.
- : Following new legislation in Talos 4, a proud mining community is considering a rebellion after the Capital officially renamed them 'District XII'.
- : Talos 4 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Extensive Public Healthcare and Largest Black Market.
- : Following new legislation in Talos 4, the default state for Talos 4 is default.
- : Following new legislation in Talos 4, state media insists that The Keeper is the most fashionable leader in United Earth Space Probe Agency.
- : Following new legislation in Talos 4, the military is slashing spending on conventional arms and diverting it to spending on prosthetic arms.
- : Following new legislation in Talos 4, songs in 4/4 time are simply too common for the musical cognoscenti.
- : Following new legislation in Talos 4, treason is relative.
- : Talos 4 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Healthiest Citizens, Most Eco-Friendly Governments, Lowest Crime Rates, and Most Income Equality.
- : Following new legislation in Talos 4, citizens are grown in vats.