Population | 6.848 billion |
Currency | betale |
Animal | deer |
The Empire of Artaire is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 6.848 billion Artaireans enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.
The minute, liberal, pro-business government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.7%.
The strong Artairean economy, worth 391 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Basket Weaving, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 57,238 betales, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 368,909 per year while the poor average 3,588, a ratio of 102 to 1.
Scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, and glamping Artaireans won't sleep in a tent that doesn't include a Jacuzzi. Crime is a major problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Artaire's national animal is the deer, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.
Artaire is ranked 297,814th in the world and 8th in Isle of Man for Most Conservative, scoring 3 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Artaire was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Greatest Rich-Poor Divides.
- : Artaire was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Secular.
- : Artaire's influence in Isle of Man rose from "Contender" to "Instigator".
- : Artaire's influence in Isle of Man fell from "Instigator" to "Contender".
- : Artaire's influence in Isle of Man rose from "Contender" to "Instigator".
- : Artaire's influence in Isle of Man fell from "Instigator" to "Contender".
- : Artaire's influence in Isle of Man rose from "Contender" to "Instigator".
- : Artaire was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Greatest Rich-Poor Divides.
- : Artaire's influence in Isle of Man fell from "Instigator" to "Contender".
- : Artaire was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Crime Rates and the Top 10% for Highest Wealthy Incomes, Most Avoided, and Most Primitive.