Population | 4.782 billion |
Currency | Platinum |
Animal | Scorpion |
The Commonwealth of Ump414 is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its disturbing lack of elderly people, daily referendums, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 4.782 billion Ump414ians 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, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 73.3%.
The frighteningly efficient Ump414ian economy, worth 922 trillion Platinums a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 192,816 Platinums, with the richest citizens earning 5.2 times as much as the poorest.
The country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, Tom and Jerry cartoons have cat and mouse resolving their problems with reasoned discussion, and prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ump414's national animal is the Scorpion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Ump414 is ranked 15,722nd in the world and 873rd in Lazarus for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 8,050.33 on the Gilded Widget Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Ump414 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Patriotic, Highest Average Incomes, Largest Black Market, and Highest Wealthy Incomes and the Top 10% for Most Scientifically Advanced.
- : Following new legislation in Ump414, prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators.
- : Following new legislation in Ump414, Tom and Jerry cartoons have cat and mouse resolving their problems with reasoned discussion.
- : Following new legislation in Ump414, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police.
- : Ump414 was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Largest Manufacturing Sector and the Top 10% for Most Conservative.
- : Following new legislation in Ump414, the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry.
- : Following new legislation in Ump414, kids looking for shark teeth have become ancient history.
- : Following new legislation in Ump414, policemen regularly conduct midnight raids on closed donut shops to 'collect evidence'.
- : Following new legislation in Ump414, Little League matches are often attended by riot police with water cannon... just in case.
- : Following new legislation in Ump414, military parades quietly tiptoe their way through the streets.