Population | 4.61 billion |
Currency | Euro |
Animal | Zebra |
The Borderlands of Ump375 is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its pith helmet sales, state-planned economy, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 4.61 billion Ump375ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.
The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 78.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Ump375ian economy, worth 918 trillion Euros 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 199,271 Euros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.
Merry Birthday is a popular protest song despite the risk of fines and royalty dues, military pistols are more secure than the national treasury, a PhD just ain't what it used to be, and travellers are often forcibly evicted by torch-bearing mobs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ump375's national animal is the Zebra, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Ump375 is ranked 111,208th in the world and 1,575th in Lazarus for Most Stationary, with 355.7021334616 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Ump375, travellers are often forcibly evicted by torch-bearing mobs.
- : Following new legislation in Ump375, a PhD just ain't what it used to be.
- : Following new legislation in Ump375, military pistols are more secure than the national treasury.
- : Following new legislation in Ump375, Merry Birthday is a popular protest song despite the risk of fines and royalty dues.
- : Following new legislation in Ump375, the Communist Party claims that selling things for profit isn't necessarily capitalism.
- : Following new legislation in Ump375, every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead.
- : Ump375 was reclassified from "Moralistic Democracy" to "Authoritarian Democracy".
- : Following new legislation in Ump375, going on a diet invalidates your passport.
- : Following new legislation in Ump375, pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects.
- : Ump375 was reclassified from "Authoritarian Democracy" to "Moralistic Democracy".