Population | 4.774 billion |
Currency | Dollar |
Animal | Eagle |
The Jingoistic States of Ump209 is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, enslaved workforce, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 4.774 billion Ump209ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."
The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 80.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Ump209ian economy, worth 877 trillion Dollars 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 black market in Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. 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 183,829 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Frustrated women are overjoyed at the provision of communal washing machines, only lightning has a chance of striking Leader twice, the "swords to plowshares" policy has created a generation of farmers that can kill a yak from 200 yards away, and the death penalty has been reintroduced. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ump209's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.
Ump209 is ranked 17,032nd in the world and 1,091st in Osiris for Lowest Crime Rates, with 92.25 law-abiding acts per hour.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Ump209, the death penalty has been reintroduced.
- : Following new legislation in Ump209, the "swords to plowshares" policy has created a generation of farmers that can kill a yak from 200 yards away.
- : Following new legislation in Ump209, only lightning has a chance of striking Leader twice.
- : Following new legislation in Ump209, frustrated women are overjoyed at the provision of communal washing machines.
- : Following new legislation in Ump209, Ump209ian political exiles populate the near abroad.
- : Following new legislation in Ump209, soldiers' positions are given away by the glint of their bayonets.
- : Following new legislation in Ump209, the men in trenchcoats hanging around playgrounds are actually police officers.
- : Following new legislation in Ump209, litter collection has replaced fast food as the most popular after-school job.
- : Following new legislation in Ump209, the military invades any neighboring nation with the gall to criticize its policies.
- : Following new legislation in Ump209, government officials frown on anything more technologically advanced than an abacus.