The Protectorate of Ecostria is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its lack of airports, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 8.267 billion Ecostrians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.
The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt morass — juggles the competing demands of Environment, Industry, and Healthcare. The income tax rate is 100%.
The frighteningly efficient Ecostrian economy, worth a remarkable 2,447 trillion biodiversity indexes a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, extremely specialized black market in Gambling and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an amazing 296,010 biodiversity indexes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Lovesick people are told 'it's not them, it's you', arts classes now teach children how to sketch the perfect sine curve, international humanitarian organisations are applauding the government for ending the death penalty, and consumption of cat memes has skyrocketed. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Ecostria's national animal is the homo sapiens, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Ecostria is ranked 346,035th in the world and 5th in Fuseishuu for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -24.9 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.
National Happenings
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Ecostria, consumption of cat memes has skyrocketed.
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Ecostria, international humanitarian organisations are applauding the government for ending the death penalty.
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Ecostria, arts classes now teach children how to sketch the perfect sine curve.
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Ecostria, lovesick people are told 'it's not them, it's you'.
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Ecostria, the song 'They Got an Awful Lot of Coffee in Ecostria' is a smash hit.
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Ecostria, re-education centers are being added to most prisons.
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Ecostria, acrimonious legal battles result during divorce proceedings.
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Ecostria, procrastination is a national sport.
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Ecostria, there's a bright dawn ahead for Ecostria.
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Ecostria, many believe that you can't repeat history's mistakes if you don't care what they were.