The Sunset on the River Nile of Pluvie is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Malcolm with an iron fist, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, compulsory military service, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 4.525 billion Pluveans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.
The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mattar. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.5%.
The all-consuming Pluviean economy, worth 314 trillion Sun-tokens a year, is highly specialized and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is 69,397 Sun-tokens, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 366,722 per year while the poor average 6,974, a ratio of 52.6 to 1.
Residents of houses built on a foundation of wishful thinking are prone to an odd sinking feeling, traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways, meetings are often scheduled for "about four-ish" following complete conversion to sundials, and arthritic citizens seem underrepresented at royal meet-and-greets. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Pluvie's national animal is the Fennec Fox, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Love.
Pluvie is ranked 247,451st in the world and 252nd in Karma for Most Income Equality, scoring 1.9 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.
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Pluvie, arthritic citizens seem underrepresented at royal meet-and-greets.
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Pluvie, meetings are often scheduled for "about four-ish" following complete conversion to sundials.
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Pluvie, traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways.
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Pluvie was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Avoided.
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Pluvie, residents of houses built on a foundation of wishful thinking are prone to an odd sinking feeling.
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Pluvie, nobility is the world's oldest profession.
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Pluvie, the only legal elections are for student body president.
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Pluvie was reclassified from "Inoffensive Centrist Democracy" to "Father Knows Best State".
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Pluvie, woefully uninformed voters cast their ballots at random.
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Pluvie, late night talk show hosts are having a field day over Malcolm's questionably sane new coalition partners.