Population | 22.896 billion |
Capital | an abandoned warehouse |
Leader | some dude named jeff |
Faith | dragon worshippers |
Currency | Steak |
Animal | Dragon |
The GENERALLY HONOURABLE NATION of ROM is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by some dude named jeff with an iron fist, and renowned for its teetotalling pirates, state-planned economy, and feral children. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 22.896 billion Stans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."
The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Law & Order, Spirituality, and Administration are also considered important, while Education and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of an abandoned warehouse. The average income tax rate is 97.0%.
The frighteningly efficient ROMian economy, worth a remarkable 8,133 trillion Steaks 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, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Gambling. 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 355,236 Steaks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.
ROM is increasingly belligerent on the international stage, a full moon at night lets economists sleep tight, it's widely agreed that to tennis players love means nothing, and a citizen who thinks a slave is a deadbeat is entitled to make the descriptor literally true. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force. ROM's national animal is the Dragon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is dragon worshippers.
ROM is ranked 306,497th in the world and 7,075th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring -59 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in ROM, a citizen who thinks a slave is a deadbeat is entitled to make the descriptor literally true.
- : Following new legislation in ROM, it's widely agreed that to tennis players love means nothing.
- : Following new legislation in ROM, a full moon at night lets economists sleep tight.
- : Following new legislation in ROM, ROM is increasingly belligerent on the international stage.
- : Following new legislation in ROM, kids' party bags often contain candy and e-cigarettes.
- : Following new legislation in ROM, the derisively named "Morlocks of Moria" futilely demand time in the sun.
- : Following new legislation in ROM, religious classes are compulsory for all school students.
- : Following new legislation in ROM, the Dragon stadiums are open 24/7.
- : Following new legislation in ROM, homes have been banned from having any more than one wheel.
- : Following new legislation in ROM, flatulent people are left to die of cancer at the end of hospital waiting lists.