The United States of Washington-ME- is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its public floggings, compulsory military service, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.049 billion Washington-ME-ians 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 Industry. The average income tax rate is 66.7%.
The frighteningly efficient Washington-ME-ian economy, worth 628 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 155,214 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.9 times as much as the poorest.
The overhead luggage compartment is often full, college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, doctors prescribe medicines but they rarely dispense hope or compassion, and the combined alert sound of a nation simultaneously receiving a text message is a common cause of hearing damage. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Washington-ME-'s national animal is the bald eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.
Washington-ME- is ranked 25,593rd in the world and 169th in Aerospace for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 6,236 on the Gilded Widget Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
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Washington-ME-, the combined alert sound of a nation simultaneously receiving a text message is a common cause of hearing damage.
- : Following new legislation in Washington-ME-, doctors prescribe medicines but they rarely dispense hope or compassion.
- : Following new legislation in Washington-ME-, college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys.
- : Following new legislation in Washington-ME-, the overhead luggage compartment is often full.
- : Following new legislation in Washington-ME-, people are turning themselves into worm food.
- : Washington-ME- was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Valuable International Artwork.
- : Following new legislation in Washington-ME-, tombstones are ten feet high to accommodate the names of inhabitants.
- : Following new legislation in Washington-ME-, murder rates are on the rise as the popularity of soylent products grows.
- : Following new legislation in Washington-ME-, whenever pilots have to bail out the government bails out their company.
- : Following new legislation in Washington-ME-, a widely accepted trade policy is "tit-for-tat".
