The United Kingdom of Avemton is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, cheerful population of 16.263 billion Avemtonians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.
The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 86.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Avemtonian economy, worth a remarkable 1,669 trillion Coins 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 Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 102,642 Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Construction of the Really Big Hadron Collider is underway, future leaders of Avemton regularly dismiss pressing political issues when available options don't conform to their worldview, people stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating, and discarded pennies litter the streets. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Avemton's national animal is the Bird of Paradise, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.
Avemton is ranked 8,244th in the world and 398th in Balder for Highest Food Quality, scoring 173.78 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Avemton was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Food Quality, Most Developed, Most Advanced Public Education, Highest Foreign Aid Spending, and Most Beautiful Environments.
- : Following new legislation in Avemton, discarded pennies litter the streets.
- : Following new legislation in Avemton, people stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating.
- : Following new legislation in Avemton, future leaders of Avemton regularly dismiss pressing political issues when available options don't conform to their worldview.
- : Following new legislation in Avemton, construction of the Really Big Hadron Collider is underway.
- : Following new legislation in Avemton, feeling like a winner comes at a price.
- : Following new legislation in Avemton, there have been reports of people marrying housepets.
- : Avemton was reclassified from "Democratic Socialists" to "Scandinavian Liberal Paradise".
- : Avemton was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Subsidized Industry.
- : Following new legislation in Avemton, the media seems excessively interested in what Leader is wearing this season.
