Population | 276 million |
Capital | Company Headquarters |
Currency | Gold Coin |
Animal | Zombie |
The Armed Republic of Xylaria is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, pith helmet sales, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 276 million Xylarians 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 relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Company Headquarters. The average income tax rate is 26.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Xylarian economy, worth 34.4 trillion Gold Coins 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 slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Uranium Mining. 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 124,799 Gold Coins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.
Motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours, serial commas clarify the relationship between one's lackeys, the taxpayers, and kinsfolk, the strong are acquitted and the weak are trampled in trial by a Zombie, and the nationalised Arms Manufacturing Industry is not interested in making weapons. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Xylaria's national animal is the Zombie, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Xylaria is ranked 109,584th in the world and 835th in Europe for Most Income Equality, scoring 37.24 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Xylaria, the nationalised Arms Manufacturing Industry is not interested in making weapons.
- : Xylaria endorsed The Free Land of Ukrainian Crimea and Sevastopol.
- : Xylaria was endorsed by The Free Land of Ukrainian Crimea and Sevastopol.
- : Following new legislation in Xylaria, the strong are acquitted and the weak are trampled in trial by a Zombie.
- : Following new legislation in Xylaria, serial commas clarify the relationship between one's lackeys, the taxpayers, and kinsfolk.
- : Xylaria was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Insurance Industry.
- : Following new legislation in Xylaria, motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours.
- : Following new legislation in Xylaria, it's usual for grandparents to stay in the family home with their descendants but younger children are often frightened of them.
- : Following new legislation in Xylaria, conscientious objectors are hanged as traitors.
- : Following new legislation in Xylaria, Leader has declared a weed sticking through a crack in the sidewalk to be the nation's newest green space.
World Assembly
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