The Kingdom of Berkelland NLD is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, enslaved workforce, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, humorless, devout population of 2.953 billion Berkelland NLDians 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 large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Education. The average income tax rate is 68.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Berkelland NLDian economy, worth 337 trillion euros a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 114,209 euros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.
Punk-rockers and girl-bands are united in their loss of fashion statements, economic output is rising as the chronically depressed are persuaded not to burden society, blind students are at a disadvantage now that test papers printed in braille have been discontinued, and television characters who ask how someone's doing are charged with harassment. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Berkelland NLD's national animal is the lion, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.
Berkelland NLD is ranked 29,406th in the world and 233rd in Aerospace for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 5,750.52 on the Gilded Widget Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in
Berkelland NLD, television characters who ask how someone's doing are charged with harassment.
- : Following new legislation in Berkelland NLD, blind students are at a disadvantage now that test papers printed in braille have been discontinued.
- : Following new legislation in Berkelland NLD, economic output is rising as the chronically depressed are persuaded not to burden society.
- : Following new legislation in Berkelland NLD, punk-rockers and girl-bands are united in their loss of fashion statements.
- : Following new legislation in Berkelland NLD, the easiest method of escaping from prison is to take singing lessons.
- : Berkelland NLD was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Valuable International Artwork.
- : Following new legislation in Berkelland NLD, endangered species are effective hostages against the Berkelland NLDian military.
- : Following new legislation in Berkelland NLD, the tax agency is feared more than serial killers and terrorists.
- : Following new legislation in Berkelland NLD, pulling weeds is seen as a threat to national security.
- : Following new legislation in Berkelland NLD, only toddlers and the elderly watch television before 23:00.
