The Fatui Harbringer of Columbina is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, compulsory military service, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, devout population of 3.886 billion Columbinans 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 41.7%.
The thriving Columbinan economy, worth 318 trillion moras a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 81,962 moras, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.
Diplomatic fallout tends to be much more dangerous than radioactive fallout, binoculars sales are at an all-time high, nuclear warheads are frequently launched into space as a warning to invading meteoroids, and politicians sweat as journalists scour internet archives for any mention of them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Columbina's national animal is the fatui, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Columbina is ranked 110,669th in the world and 632nd in Remembrance for Most Corrupt Governments, with 9.76 kickbacks per hour.
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Most Recent Government Activity:
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Columbina, politicians sweat as journalists scour internet archives for any mention of them.
- : Following new legislation in Columbina, nuclear warheads are frequently launched into space as a warning to invading meteoroids.
- : Following new legislation in Columbina, binoculars sales are at an all-time high.
- : Following new legislation in Columbina, diplomatic fallout tends to be much more dangerous than radioactive fallout.
- : Following new legislation in Columbina, city workers have declared that rolling markets aren't good for business after all.
- : Columbina was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Conservative.
- : Following new legislation in Columbina, pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security.
- : Following new legislation in Columbina, political hopefuls must announce their intentions decades in advance to accommodate extensive background checks.
- : Following new legislation in Columbina, the practice of capital punishment proves divisive.
- : Following new legislation in Columbina, the nation's first space rocket -- sponsored by Eckie-Ecola and shaped like an enormous soda bottle -- is being developed.
