The Kunoichi Apprentice of Hotaru Tsuchigumo is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, public floggings, and frequent executions. The compassionate population of 3.74 billion Hotaru Tsuchigumoans 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 enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 54.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The Hotaru Tsuchigumoan economy, worth 163 trillion guilders a year, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 43,712 guilders, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.
The transit system is throwing poor people under the bus, many of the unemployed have had the fight taken out of them, it's believed that women's brains will overheat if they think for themselves, and a ban on unsolicited cold calling in all forms is in effect. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hotaru Tsuchigumo's national animal is the eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.
Hotaru Tsuchigumo is ranked 235,740th in the world and 1,275th in Remembrance for Most Beautiful Environments, with 364.95 pounds of wildlife per square mile.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in
Hotaru Tsuchigumo, a ban on unsolicited cold calling in all forms is in effect.
- : Following new legislation in Hotaru Tsuchigumo, it's believed that women's brains will overheat if they think for themselves.
- : Following new legislation in Hotaru Tsuchigumo, many of the unemployed have had the fight taken out of them.
- : Following new legislation in Hotaru Tsuchigumo, the transit system is throwing poor people under the bus.
- : Following new legislation in Hotaru Tsuchigumo, the government is pouring money into 'Operation Enduring Democracy'.
- : Hotaru Tsuchigumo's influence in Remembrance rose from "Minnow" to "Sprat".
- : Following new legislation in Hotaru Tsuchigumo, six-year-old children playing dress-up are viewed with suspicion.
- : Following new legislation in Hotaru Tsuchigumo, the government tries not to listen to the people unless it absolutely has to.
- : Following new legislation in Hotaru Tsuchigumo, park rangers perform full-body searches on suspected fungus smugglers.
- : Following new legislation in Hotaru Tsuchigumo, Leader's Dreadnought-class tankbuster limousine is said to have more ammunition than the entire Brancalandian Army.
