Population | 11.347 billion |
Capital | Yodle City |
Leader | Yodle |
Faith | Yodlism |
Currency | Gold Coin |
Animal | Zombie |
The Pen Name and Card Czar of Jem Finch is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Yodle with an even hand, and remarkable for its vat-grown people, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 11.347 billion Finches are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.
The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yodle City. The average income tax rate is 68.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Finch economy, worth a remarkable 1,599 trillion Gold Coins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 140,973 Gold Coins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.
The morbidly obese often sell stock options on their own corpses, out-of-work actors say they can't complain, the "war on terror" doesn't seem to be making Finches any less frightened, and political detractors refer to Yodle as 'that Bigtopian puppet'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Jem Finch's national animal is the Zombie, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Yodlism.
Jem Finch is ranked 299,056th in the world and 296th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Most Cultured, scoring 43 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Jem Finch was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Best Weather.
- : Following new legislation in Jem Finch, political detractors refer to Yodle as 'that Bigtopian puppet'.
- : Following new legislation in Jem Finch, the "war on terror" doesn't seem to be making Finches any less frightened.
- : Following new legislation in Jem Finch, out-of-work actors say they can't complain.
- : Following new legislation in Jem Finch, the morbidly obese often sell stock options on their own corpses.
- : Following new legislation in Jem Finch, the nation's counterintelligence budget is all up in the air.
- : Following new legislation in Jem Finch, teenage girls worry that they'll be unpopular if their skirts aren't short enough.
- : Following new legislation in Jem Finch, beating enemies to death with a baseball bat is legal if done within nine innings.
- : Following new legislation in Jem Finch, school children asked "what is two times two?" are likely to form a symposium to discuss how different answers make them feel.
- : Following new legislation in Jem Finch, the wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned.