The Dictatorship of Universum Aethereum is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The democratic population of 1.565 billion Aspiring Writers are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.
The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 71.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The sizeable but stagnant Universum Aethereumian economy, worth 18.5 trillion Posts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Automobile Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 11,803 Posts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Birds and children's kites are regularly brought down by anti-aircraft fire. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Universum Aethereum's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Universum Aethereum is ranked 192,773rd in the world and 12th in Universum Aethereum for Fattest Citizens, with 9.67 Obesity Rate.
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Universum Aethereum's influence in Universum Aethereum rose from "Contender" to "Instigator".
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Universum Aethereum's influence in Universum Aethereum fell from "Instigator" to "Contender".
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Universum Aethereum's influence in Universum Aethereum rose from "Contender" to "Instigator".
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Universum Aethereum published "REGIONAL DATABASE - ARCHIVE - Something Wicked This Way Comes - Part Two" (Account: Other).
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Universum Aethereum published "REGIONAL DATABASE - ARCHIVE - Something Wicked This Way Comes - Part One" (Account: Other).
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Universum Aethereum published "REGIONAL DATABASE - ARCHIVE - Operation Final Frontier" (Account: Military).
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Universum Aethereum published "REGIONAL DATABASE - ARCHIVE - A Dangerous Encounter" (Account: Military).
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Universum Aethereum published "REGIONAL DATABASE - ARCHIVE - THE NORDIC WAR - The King's Journey - An Interlude in Ragnarok" (Account: Military).
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Universum Aethereum published "REGIONAL DATABASE - ARCHIVE - THE NORDIC WAR - Defense of New Scandinavia - Act One: Battle of Jostedalsbreen" (Account: Military).
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Universum Aethereum published "REGIONAL DATABASE - The Great Archive" (Account: Other).