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Highest Wealthy Incomes: 202ndGreatest Rich-Poor Divides: 222ndLargest Insurance Industry: 233rd
The Protectorate of
Corporate Police State
Determining who is smart and who was shot in the head.
Supreme Evil Overlord Balding
Influence
Minnow
Civil Rights
Few
Economy
Frightening
Political Freedom
Outlawed

Overview Policies People Government Economy Rank Trend Cards

Bald

Population24.008 billion

CapitalHairless City
LeaderSupreme Evil Overlord Balding
Faiththe Order of Saint Balding

CurrencyBald
AnimalBald Eagle

The Protectorate of Bald is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Supreme Evil Overlord Balding with an iron fist, and remarkable for its parental licensing program, smutty television, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 24.008 billion Bald Bastards are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hairless City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 50.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Bald economy, worth a remarkable 8,420 trillion Balds a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Retail, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 350,755 Balds, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 3,237,113 per year while the poor average 3,774, a ratio of 857 to 1.

Funeral directors are frequently looking at their watches during funerals, fire and brimstone sermons are accompanied by napalm and fragmentation bombs, it's entirely possible foreign diplomats misheard when Bald offered the words "peace be upon you", and twins move across the country to avoid being accused of the other's crimes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bald's national animal is the Bald Eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is the Order of Saint Balding.

Bald is ranked 2,303rd in the world and 35th in The North Pacific for Most Stationary, with 3,963.70579656 days.

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Highest Wealthy Incomes: 202ndGreatest Rich-Poor Divides: 222ndLargest Insurance Industry: 233rdLargest Automobile Manufacturing Sector: 698thLargest Cheese Export Sector: 875thLargest Pizza Delivery Sector: 1,040thHighest Economic Output: 1,239thFattest Citizens: 1,589thLargest Mining Sector: 1,591stLargest Black Market: 1,616thHighest Average Incomes: 1,720thLargest Timber Woodchipping Industry: 1,998thLargest Agricultural Sector: 2,075thHighest Disposable Incomes: 2,289thMost Stationary: 2,303rdMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 2,433rdLargest Furniture Restoration Industry: 2,624thLargest Soda Pop Sector: 2,764thLargest Manufacturing Sector: 2,792ndMost Advanced Defense Forces: 2,905thTop
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Most Corrupt Governments: 3,150thMost Avoided: 3,190thLowest Crime Rates: 3,463rdLargest Basket Weaving Sector: 3,499thLargest Gambling Industry: 3,679thHighest Unexpected Death Rate: 3,700thLargest Retail Industry: 4,317thMost Efficient Economies: 5,425thLargest Governments: 5,592ndLargest Arms Manufacturing Sector: 6,102ndLargest Populations: 9,625thLargest Publishing Industry: 12,762ndMost Influential: 13,150thHighest Foreign Aid Spending: 13,358thMost Advanced Public Transport: 13,955thTop
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Most Subsidized Industry: 15,180thMost Scientifically Advanced: 17,040thMost Armed: 17,633rdMost Patriotic: 17,797thLargest Information Technology Sector: 22,492ndSmartest Citizens: 23,775thMost World Assembly Endorsements: 27,234thMost Pro-Market: 27,370th
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Greatest Rich-Poor Divides: 7th in the regionLargest Insurance Industry: 7th in the regionHighest Wealthy Incomes: 11th in the regionLargest Automobile Manufacturing Sector: 11th in the regionLargest Pizza Delivery Sector: 22nd in the regionLargest Cheese Export Sector: 28th in the regionLargest Mining Sector: 32nd in the regionMost Stationary: 35th in the regionLargest Timber Woodchipping Industry: 35th in the regionHighest Economic Output: 38th in the regionFattest Citizens: 45th in the regionLargest Black Market: 45th in the regionLargest Furniture Restoration Industry: 58th in the regionLargest Soda Pop Sector: 61st in the regionLargest Agricultural Sector: 67th in the regionMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 67th in the regionLargest Manufacturing Sector: 68th in the regionTop
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Most Avoided: 71st in the regionHighest Average Incomes: 73rd in the regionLargest Gambling Industry: 74th in the regionLargest Basket Weaving Sector: 75th in the regionMost Corrupt Governments: 78th in the regionHighest Unexpected Death Rate: 80th in the regionHighest Disposable Incomes: 85th in the regionMost Advanced Defense Forces: 90th in the regionLargest Populations: 111th in the regionLargest Arms Manufacturing Sector: 136th in the regionLargest Retail Industry: 147th in the regionLowest Crime Rates: 172nd in the regionMost Pro-Market: 220th in the regionMost Efficient Economies: 228th in the regionLargest Governments: 263rd in the regionMost Armed: 332nd in the regionTop
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Most Extreme: 370th in the regionMost Subsidized Industry: 382nd in the regionMost Advanced Public Transport: 460th in the regionHighest Foreign Aid Spending: 466th in the regionMost Patriotic: 503rd in the regionLargest Publishing Industry: 596th in the region

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Bald was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Subsidized Industry.
  • : Bald was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Subsidized Industry.
  • : Bald was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Advanced Defense Forces.
  • : Bald was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Advanced Defense Forces.
  • : Bald was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Advanced Defense Forces.
  • : Bald was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Advanced Defense Forces.
  • : Bald was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Advanced Defense Forces and Most Corrupt Governments.
  • : Bald was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Advanced Defense Forces.
  • : Bald was struck by a Mk V (Cauterizer) Cure Missile from The American Insurgency of Former English Colony, curing 199 million infected.
  • : Bald was struck by a Mk V (Cauterizer) Cure Missile from The American Insurgency of Former English Colony, curing 379 million infected.

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