Population | 20.594 billion |
Capital | Spit |
Leader | The Gentlemen Interregnum |
Faith | shambolic atheism |
Currency | Blood Shilling |
Animal | Wight Algae Bloom |
The Isle of Wight is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by The Gentlemen Interregnum with a fair hand, and notable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The democratic population of 20.594 billion Wightlingfolk enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.
The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Spit. The average income tax rate is 74.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The large but inefficient Wightlinga economy, worth 639 trillion Blood Shillings a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 31,047 Blood Shillings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Cheese has become the new icon of political dissent, online tourism reviews of Wight are suspiciously positive and amazingly similar, 'unconventional' weaponry has been banned, and Members of Parliament are often found living in cardboard boxes. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wight's national animal is the Wight Algae Bloom, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is shambolic atheism.
Wight is ranked 36,171st in the world and 2nd in Wide Enness Ocean for Most Cultured, scoring 76 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Wight was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Beautiful Environments.
- : Wight's influence in Wide Enness Ocean rose from "Envoy" to "Diplomat".
- : Wight's influence in Wide Enness Ocean fell from "Diplomat" to "Envoy".
- : Wight was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Beautiful Environments.
- : Wight's influence in Wide Enness Ocean fell from "Ambassador" to "Diplomat".
- : Wight's influence in Wide Enness Ocean fell from "Auxiliary" to "Ambassador".
- : Wight's influence in Wide Enness Ocean fell from "Negotiator" to "Auxiliary".
- : Wight dismissed Wight as Successor of Wide Enness Ocean.
- : Wight appointed The Syndicates of Tamarindia as Successor with authority over Successor, Appearance, Border Control, Communications, and Embassies in Wide Enness Ocean.
- : Wight succeeded The Isle of Bonesea as Governor of Wide Enness Ocean.