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Largest Insurance Industry: 544thLargest Information Technology Sector: 674thSmartest Citizens: 5,475th
The Scientific Pretensions of
Corrupt Dictatorship
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Duckspeaker
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Region
Civil Rights
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Rocain Founder

Population8.09 billion

CapitalNew Lisbon
LeaderDr Cain
Faitha colorful religion

Currencyrumu
Animalparrot

The Scientific Pretensions of Rocain Founder is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Dr Cain with an iron fist, and remarkable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, frequent executions, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 8.09 billion Foundrians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Lisbon. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 50.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Foundrian economy, worth a remarkable 2,115 trillion rumus a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 261,499 rumus, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 814,953 per year while the poor average 64,471, a ratio of 12.6 to 1.

Parking lots are littered with coffee cups and doughnut crumbs, an underground group of geologists hides new discoveries to protect them from being destroyed in the name of safety, Foundrian politicians spend a lot of time praising East Lebatuckese policies these days, and twins move across the country to avoid being accused of the other's crimes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Rocain Founder's national animal is the parrot, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is a colorful religion.

Rocain Founder is ranked 57,148th in the world and 23rd in Rocain Labs for Most Cultured, scoring 70 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.

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Largest Insurance Industry: 544thLargest Information Technology Sector: 674thTop
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Smartest Citizens: 5,475thLargest Agricultural Sector: 6,571stMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 7,584thMost Corrupt Governments: 9,908thMost Efficient Economies: 10,025thLargest Timber Woodchipping Industry: 10,264thLargest Manufacturing Sector: 11,077thMost Subsidized Industry: 11,199thLargest Arms Manufacturing Sector: 12,750thTop
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Largest Retail Industry: 19,173rdMost Advanced Public Transport: 19,423rdLargest Governments: 19,904thMost Secular: 22,934thLargest Basket Weaving Sector: 24,124thLargest Cheese Export Sector: 26,354th
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Largest Insurance Industry: 1st in the regionLargest Information Technology Sector: 1st in the regionLargest Populations: 1st in the regionSmartest Citizens: 2nd in the regionTop
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Largest Agricultural Sector: 3rd in the region

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Following new legislation in Rocain Founder, twins move across the country to avoid being accused of the other's crimes.
  • : Following new legislation in Rocain Founder, Foundrian politicians spend a lot of time praising East Lebatuckese policies these days.
  • : Following new legislation in Rocain Founder, an underground group of geologists hides new discoveries to protect them from being destroyed in the name of safety.
  • : Following new legislation in Rocain Founder, parking lots are littered with coffee cups and doughnut crumbs.
  • : Following new legislation in Rocain Founder, litter collection has replaced fast food as the most popular after-school job.
  • : Following new legislation in Rocain Founder, women complaining about lack of opportunity are told to "man up".
  • : Following new legislation in Rocain Founder, space has been brought down to earth with constellations of cancer cases across Rocain Founder.
  • : Following new legislation in Rocain Founder, Foundrian watches list strained wrists as a common side effect.
  • : Following new legislation in Rocain Founder, nuclear warheads are frequently launched into space as a warning to invading meteoroids.
  • : Following new legislation in Rocain Founder, children have lost interest in toy guns in favor of toy meth lab kits.

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