The Republic of Oguri Mel is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape and suspicion of poets. The quiet, industrious population of 2.289 billion Oguri Melians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.
The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 29.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.
The sizeable but inefficient Oguri Melian economy, worth 93.2 trillion bitcoins a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Furniture Restoration industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Basket Weaving, and Soda Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 40,696 bitcoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.
Tax assessment offices double as polling stations, children as young as six shock their parents by coming out of the closet, nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers, and a bill to outlaw math homework has been submitted. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Oguri Mel's national animal is the parrot, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.
Oguri Mel is ranked 113,551st in the world and 757th in Remembrance for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 1,908.31 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Oguri Mel was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Average and the Top 5% for Most Stationary, Most Valuable International Artwork, Most Scientifically Advanced, and Highest Economic Output.
- : Oguri Mel was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Rebellious Youth.
- : Following new legislation in Oguri Mel, a bill to outlaw math homework has been submitted.
- : Following new legislation in Oguri Mel, nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers.
- : Following new legislation in Oguri Mel, children as young as six shock their parents by coming out of the closet.
- : Following new legislation in Oguri Mel, tax assessment offices double as polling stations.
- : Following new legislation in Oguri Mel, councils up and down the country wrangle over legal matters.
- : Following new legislation in Oguri Mel, citizens with artificial limbs are forbidden to serve as beauty pageant judges.
- : Following new legislation in Oguri Mel, foreign musicians that Leader dislikes are turned away at the border.
- : Following new legislation in Oguri Mel, orthopaedics patients often have a bounce in their step.
