The Republic of Oslasa56 is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, disturbing lack of elderly people, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 7.657 billion Oslasa56ians 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, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 68.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Oslasa56ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,772 trillion guilders a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 231,454 guilders, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.
The government advises foreign diplomats to speak softly and carry a big bag of cash, metal detectors have been banned after a bottle cap caused a riot at the beach, park rangers perform full-body searches on suspected fungus smugglers, and legislators toe the party line lest the Sergeant-at-Arms decide to conduct "truncheon practice" on the backbench. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Oslasa56's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Oslasa56 is ranked 15,031st in the world and 828th in Lazarus for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 8,212.53 on the Gilded Widget Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Oslasa56 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Advanced Public Education.
- : Oslasa56 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Patriotic, Largest Black Market, and Highest Average Incomes and the Top 10% for Highest Disposable Incomes and Most Beautiful Environments.
- : Oslasa56 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Poor Incomes.
- : Following new legislation in Oslasa56, legislators toe the party line lest the Sergeant-at-Arms decide to conduct "truncheon practice" on the backbench.
- : Following new legislation in Oslasa56, park rangers perform full-body searches on suspected fungus smugglers.
- : Following new legislation in Oslasa56, metal detectors have been banned after a bottle cap caused a riot at the beach.
- : Following new legislation in Oslasa56, the government advises foreign diplomats to speak softly and carry a big bag of cash.
- : Following new legislation in Oslasa56, the government has cut taxes in the face of widespread tax evasion.
- : Oslasa56 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry.
- : Following new legislation in Oslasa56, business leaders commend the government for enacting an emissions reduction strategy that reduces no Oslasa56ian emissions at all.
