Population | 42.668 billion |
Capital | Mintaka |
Leader | Lord Maximilian III |
Faith | Christianity |
Currency | bone |
Animal | kestrel |
The Flatulent Bleatings of Pompous Windbags is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Lord Maximilian III with an iron fist, and renowned for its avowedly heterosexual populace, frequent executions, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 42.668 billion Windbags are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.
The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mintaka. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 57.5%.
The frighteningly efficient Pompous Windbagsian economy, worth an astonishing 14,270 trillion bones a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is an amazing 334,447 bones, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,316,205 per year while the poor average 16,971, a ratio of 136 to 1.
Torture is commonly used to extract information from suspected criminals, extraordinary rendition is nothing out of the ordinary, peace talks occasionally rack up a higher body count than the wars they seek to stop, and there is a disproportionate number of poor people in prison. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force. Pompous Windbags's national animal is the kestrel, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Christianity.
Pompous Windbags is ranked 306,440th in the world and 17th in Free States of Gaia for Most Cultured, scoring -50 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Pompous Windbags, there is a disproportionate number of poor people in prison.
- : Following new legislation in Pompous Windbags, peace talks occasionally rack up a higher body count than the wars they seek to stop.
- : Pompous Windbags was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Greatest Rich-Poor Divides.
- : Following new legislation in Pompous Windbags, extraordinary rendition is nothing out of the ordinary.
- : Following new legislation in Pompous Windbags, torture is commonly used to extract information from suspected criminals.
- : Following new legislation in Pompous Windbags, the booming slave trade is now government-funded.
- : Following new legislation in Pompous Windbags, the impoverished sick hang around outside golf clubs to beg for funding for healthcare.
- : Following new legislation in Pompous Windbags, builders across Pompous Windbags are blocked up with orders for new public loos.
- : Following new legislation in Pompous Windbags, Pompous Windbags has been greatly criticised for its isolationist policies.
- : Following new legislation in Pompous Windbags, family bonding sessions are considered immoral and are banned.