Population | 1.288 billion |
Capital | Unbrion |
Leader | Jerry |
Currency | Mark |
Animal | Coconut |
The United Socialist Republics of Karelis is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Jerry with an iron fist, and renowned for its parental licensing program, public floggings, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.288 billion Karelians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."
The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Unbrion. The average income tax rate is 74.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The sizeable but inefficient a Karelian economy, worth 62.9 trillion Marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 48,855 Marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.
High-income earners pay a 100% tax rate, the endangered saltwater humpback Coconut is only seen in captivity programs, immigrant Maxtopians are routinely sold on popular internet auction sites, and Jerry has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Karelis's national animal is the Coconut, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Karelis is ranked 246,910th in the world and 28th in USSR for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 46.16 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Karelis was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Average Tax Rates.
- : Karelis was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most World Assembly Endorsements.
- : Karelis was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most World Assembly Endorsements.
- : Karelis's influence in USSR rose from "Sprat" to "Shoeshiner".
- : Karelis was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Advanced Public Transport.
- : Karelis was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most World Assembly Endorsements.
- : Karelis was endorsed by The Great Scientific Polity of Greater Cuba.
- : Karelis was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector and Highest Unexpected Death Rate.
- : Karelis changed its national leader to "Jerry".
- : Karelis changed its national leader to "Vladislav".
World Assembly
Endorsements Received: 1 » Greater Cuba.