Population | 1.592 billion |
Currency | Halicarnassus |
Animal | White Phoenix |
The OIS-0128 of OIS Jeopardy is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its closed borders, avowedly heterosexual populace, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, cynical, humorless population of 1.592 billion OIS Jeopardyians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."
The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 34.2%.
The strong OIS Jeopardyian economy, worth 146 trillion Halicarnassuses a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 91,896 Halicarnassuses, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 274,866 per year while the poor average 24,028, a ratio of 11.4 to 1.
Elections have become procedural nightmares due to voters persistently rejecting candidates, the government has returned all business to private ownership, travellers are often forcibly evicted by torch-bearing mobs, and charged suspects often have to wait years before the courts have room to judge their trial. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. OIS Jeopardy's national animal is the White Phoenix, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.
OIS Jeopardy is ranked 257,280th in the world and 746th in Ordo Imperialia for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 43.9 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in OIS Jeopardy, charged suspects often have to wait years before the courts have room to judge their trial.
- : Following new legislation in OIS Jeopardy, travellers are often forcibly evicted by torch-bearing mobs.
- : Following new legislation in OIS Jeopardy, the government has returned all business to private ownership.
- : OIS Jeopardy was reclassified from "Psychotic Dictatorship" to "Iron Fist Consumerists".
- : Following new legislation in OIS Jeopardy, elections have become procedural nightmares due to voters persistently rejecting candidates.
- : Following new legislation in OIS Jeopardy, it is mandatory to learn evolution in schools.
- : Following new legislation in OIS Jeopardy, naturists are jailed regularly for indecent exposure.
- : Following new legislation in OIS Jeopardy, barbed wire entanglements and guard towers surround the OIS Jeopardy City Natural History Museum.
- : Following new legislation in OIS Jeopardy, cowboys often wear wolfskin jackets to the saloon.
- : Following new legislation in OIS Jeopardy, forty-year-old men are asked for their ID before watching the latest pony cartoon movies.