The Republic of Blechman is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its restrictive gun laws and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 759 million Blechmanians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.
The large government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital City. The average income tax rate is 40.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.
The sizeable but inefficient Blechmanian economy, worth 24.5 trillion Notes a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Trout Farming, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 32,214 Notes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.
Homophobia is off the menu, economists confusingly list "fusarium rot and leaf blight" as major risk factors for monetary deflation, polite commuters on the Capital City Metro always let hurried workers off the train first, and the government is making attempts at curtailing the flood of spam emails with little progress. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Blechman's national animal is the Aardvark.
Blechman is ranked 255,898th in the world and 10,963rd in Lazarus for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring zero on the Gilded Widget Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Blechman, the government is making attempts at curtailing the flood of spam emails with little progress.
- : Following new legislation in Blechman, polite commuters on the Capital City Metro always let hurried workers off the train first.
- : Following new legislation in Blechman, economists confusingly list "fusarium rot and leaf blight" as major risk factors for monetary deflation.
- : Following new legislation in Blechman, homophobia is off the menu.
- : Following new legislation in Blechman, crime is on the rise as DNA sampling has been all but outlawed.
- : Following new legislation in Blechman, attempts to inform people about their unclaimed property are often mistaken for telephone scams.
- : Following new legislation in Blechman, couples kissing on the street are detained for 'unlawful exchange of genetic material'.
- : Following new legislation in Blechman, marijuana is legal in the privacy of your own home.
- : Following new legislation in Blechman, cotton candy made from genuine cotton cellulose doesn't quite satisfy.
- : Blechman was reclassified from "Inoffensive Centrist Democracy" to "Democratic Socialists".
