Population | 10.337 billion |
Capital | New York |
Leader | Chief Executive Officer Jim Cayne |
Currency | dollar |
Animal | bear |
The Company of Bear Stearns is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Chief Executive Officer Jim Cayne with an even hand, and renowned for its irreverence towards religion, suspicion of poets, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 10.337 billion bankers enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.
The minute, pro-business government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New York. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.4%.
The powerhouse Bear Stearns economy, worth 952 trillion dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Retail, Soda Sales, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 92,187 dollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 429,281 per year while the poor average 11,873, a ratio of 36.2 to 1.
Ethnic minorities are often refused admission to some of the nation's best schools, charity workers dole out hardtack from behind designer sunglasses, citizens receive notices of disenfranchisement along with their parking tickets, and Chief Executive Officer Jim Cayne sports gold-plated grillz to promote the government's hard money policy. Crime is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Bear Stearns's national animal is the bear, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
Bear Stearns is ranked 270,540th in the world and 10,662nd in Balder for Most Cultured, scoring 60 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Bear Stearns's influence in Balder rose from "Newcomer" to "Nipper".
- : Bear Stearns was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Basket Weaving Sector.
- : Bear Stearns's influence in Balder rose from "Hatchling" to "Newcomer".
- : Bear Stearns's influence in Balder rose from "Unproven" to "Hatchling".
- : Bear Stearns's influence in Balder rose from "Zero" to "Unproven".
- : Bear Stearns was refounded in Balder.
- : Bear Stearns ceased to exist in Balder.
- : Bear Stearns was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Pro-Market.
- : Bear Stearns was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Basket Weaving Sector.
- : Bear Stearns was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Basket Weaving Sector.