Population | 2.423 billion |
Capital | Livyatan's Lair |
Leader | Livyatan the Sea Queen and Demon of Envy |
Faith | the Cult of Livyatan |
Currency | Molimo |
Animal | Shark |
The Holy Green Queendom of Shipwreck Bay is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Livyatan the Sea Queen and Demon of Envy with an iron fist, and notable for its deadly medical pandemics, compulsory military service, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.423 billion Cultists 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Law & Order, Spirituality, and Industry are also considered important, while International Aid and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Livyatan's Lair. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 35.5%.
The all-consuming Livyatani economy, worth 295 trillion Molimos 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 a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Information Technology, 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 impressive 122,075 Molimos, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 575,128 per year while the poor average 15,385, a ratio of 37.4 to 1.
The country has been 'going shopping' by annexing nearby nations for their resources, immigrant herding has become a national pastime, minefields are being deployed along the border to discourage potential emigrants from trying to leave, and the term "Native Cultist" has been redefined as anyone with the same skin color as the majority. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. Shipwreck Bay's national animal is the Shark, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is the Cult of Livyatan.
Shipwreck Bay is ranked 39,898th in the world and 2nd in Hulumet for Most Authoritarian, with 2,072.62 milliStalins.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Shipwreck Bay, the term "Native Cultist" has been redefined as anyone with the same skin color as the majority.
- : Following new legislation in Shipwreck Bay, minefields are being deployed along the border to discourage potential emigrants from trying to leave.
- : Following new legislation in Shipwreck Bay, immigrant herding has become a national pastime.
- : Shipwreck Bay was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Gambling Industry.
- : Following new legislation in Shipwreck Bay, the country has been 'going shopping' by annexing nearby nations for their resources.
- : Following new legislation in Shipwreck Bay, historical commemorations regularly devolve into militaristic jingoism.
- : Following new legislation in Shipwreck Bay, foundling babies rarely make it off the doorsteps they are abandoned on.
- : Following new legislation in Shipwreck Bay, abortions are carried out secretly in shady backstreet clinics.
- : Following new legislation in Shipwreck Bay, printing ink yields the Cult of Livyatan's biggest return on investment.
- : Following new legislation in Shipwreck Bay, the "war on terror" doesn't seem to be making Cultists any less frightened.