Population | 5.735 billion |
Capital | Wintermouth |
Leader | Plutarch Thompson Sr |
Currency | Foor |
Animal | White Rhinoceros |
The Commonwealth of Esterwood is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Plutarch Thompson Sr with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.735 billion Esterwoodians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.
The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wintermouth. The average income tax rate is 65.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Esterwoodian economy, worth 740 trillion Foors a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 129,039 Foors, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Replacement organs are grown in vats, fire stations and hospitals can't deploy emergency vehicles because badly parked cars block them in, the seventh son of a seventh son is fated to be a millionaire, and Plutarch Thompson Sr is convinced that other nations can simply be "junked" (Esterwood has found 1 easter egg). Crime is totally unknown. Esterwood's national animal is the White Rhinoceros, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Esterwood is ranked 33,367th in the world and 830th in the South Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 78 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.
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- : Esterwood was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Developed.
- : Esterwood was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Developed.
- : Esterwood was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Subsidized Industry.
- : Esterwood was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Poor Incomes.
- : Esterwood was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Pacifist.
- : Esterwood was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Longest Average Lifespans.
- : Esterwood was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Foreign Aid Spending.
- : Esterwood was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Foreign Aid Spending.
- : Esterwood was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Longest Average Lifespans.
- : Esterwood was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Developed.