The Emirate of Ump397 is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, ubiquitous missile silos, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 4.829 billion Ump397ians 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 medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 59.1%.
The frighteningly efficient Ump397ian economy, worth 932 trillion Pesos a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 193,115 Pesos, with the richest citizens earning 5.7 times as much as the poorest.
Old fossils give the tours at the parliamentary museum, dubiously qualified Skandilundian barristers keep referring to laws as 'government guidelines', foreigners with shady pasts are fleeing the country, and wealthy parents-to-be can select their perfect baby. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ump397's national animal is the Tiger, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Ump397 is ranked 80,849th in the world and 3,282nd in Osiris for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 3,118.8 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Ump397 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Disposable Incomes, Most Patriotic, Highest Average Incomes, Highest Wealthy Incomes, and Largest Black Market.
- : Following new legislation in Ump397, wealthy parents-to-be can select their perfect baby.
- : Following new legislation in Ump397, foreigners with shady pasts are fleeing the country.
- : Following new legislation in Ump397, dubiously qualified Skandilundian barristers keep referring to laws as 'government guidelines'.
- : Following new legislation in Ump397, old fossils give the tours at the parliamentary museum.
- : Following new legislation in Ump397, politicians constantly ring their voters to remind them how good a job they're doing.
- : Following new legislation in Ump397, a few immigrants are better than no immigrants according to Leader.
- : Following new legislation in Ump397, scavengers with burlap sacks and shovels skulk around graveyards.
- : Following new legislation in Ump397, a suspicious number of John Smiths are known to donate to Ump397ian politicians.
- : Following new legislation in Ump397, people's charity begins and ends at home.