Population | 16.599 billion |
Capital | New Ru |
Leader | Emperor Yoshio |
Faith | Kaelity |
Currency | Ren |
Animal | Dragonfly |
The Empire of Ru- is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Emperor Yoshio with an even hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, aversion to nipples, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 16.599 billion Ruvians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.
The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Ru. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 57.1%.
The frighteningly efficient Ruvian economy, worth a remarkable 3,850 trillion Rens a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 232,000 Rens, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 897,157 per year while the poor average 41,167, a ratio of 21.8 to 1.
Psychiatrists bizarrely accompany Emperor Yoshio to meetings with foreign heads of state, the government loves seeing the little people fight, gay couples have to travel to Brancaland to find a church that will actually let them wed, and political candidates recite daily pledges of loyalty to their chosen party. Crime is totally unknown. Ru-'s national animal is the Dragonfly, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Kaelity.
Ru- is ranked 2,675th in the world and 5th in The Strategic and Economic Alliance for Most Cultured, scoring 229 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Ru-, political candidates recite daily pledges of loyalty to their chosen party.
- : Ru- was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Valuable International Artwork.
- : Ru- was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Largest Publishing Industry.
- : Ru- was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Largest Publishing Industry.
- : Following new legislation in Ru-, gay couples have to travel to Brancaland to find a church that will actually let them wed.
- : Ru- was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Highest Wealthy Incomes.
- : Ru- was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Highest Wealthy Incomes.
- : Ru- was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Influential.
- : Following new legislation in Ru-, the government loves seeing the little people fight.
- : Following new legislation in Ru-, psychiatrists bizarrely accompany Emperor Yoshio to meetings with foreign heads of state.