Population | 10.466 billion |
Currency | coin |
Animal | tiger |
The Holy Land of Desert is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, public floggings, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 10.466 billion Desertians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.
The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 42.3%.
The powerhouse Desertian economy, worth 837 trillion coins a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 80,042 coins, with the richest citizens earning 5.6 times as much as the poorest.
Invasive drug testing is now performed at elementary school sports days, if you go into the woods today you're sure of a big surprise, builders across Desert are blocked up with orders for new public loos, and politicians are battling inequality by declaring themselves better than everyone else. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Desert's national animal is the tiger.
Desert is ranked 87,644th in the world and 6th in desert for Lowest Crime Rates, with 67.6 law-abiding acts per hour.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Desert's influence in Desert rose from "Shoeshiner" to "Page".
- : Desert's influence in Desert rose from "Sprat" to "Shoeshiner".
- : Desert's influence in Desert rose from "Minnow" to "Sprat".
- : Desert's influence in Desert rose from "Zero" to "Minnow".
- : Desert relocated from Balder to Desert.
- : Desert was refounded in Balder.
- : Desert ceased to exist in Desert.
- : Desert's influence in Desert rose from "Shoeshiner" to "Page".
- : Desert's influence in Desert rose from "Sprat" to "Shoeshiner".
- : Desert's influence in Desert rose from "Minnow" to "Sprat".