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Most Efficient Economies: 26thMost Scientifically Advanced: 28thSmartest Citizens: 55th
The Brazen Panoply of
Corporate Bordello
A God in every Machine
Archsophist Archimedes Babbage
Influence
Eminence Grise
Bureau of Anachronism
Region
Civil Rights
Excellent
Economy
Frightening
Political Freedom
Excessive

Overview Factbook Policies People Government Economy Rank Trend Cards

Steam and Clockwork

Population13.763 billion

CapitalGear and Sprocket
LeaderArchsophist Archimedes Babbage
FaithWay of Gas and Vacuum

CurrencypneumatiCERT
AnimalAutomaton

The Brazen Panoply of Steam and Clockwork is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Archsophist Archimedes Babbage with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, digital currency, and flagrant waste-dumping. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 13.763 billion Pneumata are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gear and Sprocket. The average income tax rate is 99.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Pneumatic economy, worth a remarkable 7,252 trillion pneumatiCERTs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is a breathtaking 526,937 pneumatiCERTs, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 4,721,069 per year while the poor average 7,576, a ratio of 623 to 1.

Footballers are doing aerobics in the sauna to build their hot weather endurance, tabloids publicly shun nurses for not calling home on the weekends, military equipment is being auctioned off to extend comatose centenarians' lives, and the nation is committed to nuclear rearmament. Crime is totally unknown. Steam and Clockwork's national animal is the Automaton, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Way of Gas and Vacuum.

Steam and Clockwork is ranked 10,337th in the world and 2nd in The Horde for Most Stationary, with 2,315.78871233872 days.

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Most Efficient Economies: 26thMost Scientifically Advanced: 28thSmartest Citizens: 55thHighest Wealthy Incomes: 57thRudest Citizens: 68thMost Subsidized Industry: 143rdLargest Information Technology Sector: 179thLargest Publishing Industry: 218thLargest Retail Industry: 224thMost Secular: 229thMost Cultured: 238thHighest Average Incomes: 352ndLargest Agricultural Sector: 383rdLargest Cheese Export Sector: 388thLargest Governments: 428thHighest Food Quality: 705thMost Advanced Public Education: 752ndMost Inclusive: 885thGreatest Rich-Poor Divides: 954thMost Cheerful Citizens: 1,216thLargest Automobile Manufacturing Sector: 1,312thHighest Average Tax Rates: 1,487thMost Pro-Market: 1,682ndHighest Economic Output: 1,695thLargest Furniture Restoration Industry: 1,869thLargest Basket Weaving Sector: 2,056thMost Developed: 2,205thLowest Crime Rates: 2,420thMost Rebellious Youth: 2,449thLongest Average Lifespans: 2,893rdTop
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Largest Soda Pop Sector: 3,344thMost Corrupt Governments: 3,458thMost Valuable International Artwork: 4,346thMost Popular Tourist Destinations: 4,519thLargest Timber Woodchipping Industry: 4,634thLargest Insurance Industry: 5,636thLargest Welfare Programs: 5,729thHealthiest Citizens: 6,804thMost Advanced Public Transport: 6,878thMost Extensive Public Healthcare: 6,889thLargest Manufacturing Sector: 7,509thMost Patriotic: 10,093rdMost Stationary: 10,337thLargest Mining Sector: 11,156thMost Influential: 11,631stTop
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Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector: 18,251stMost Politically Free: 28,883rdLargest Populations: 29,731st
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Smartest Citizens: 1st in the regionMost Scientifically Advanced: 1st in the region

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Following new legislation in Steam and Clockwork, the nation is committed to nuclear rearmament.
  • : Following new legislation in Steam and Clockwork, military equipment is being auctioned off to extend comatose centenarians' lives.
  • : Following new legislation in Steam and Clockwork, tabloids publicly shun nurses for not calling home on the weekends.
  • : Following new legislation in Steam and Clockwork, footballers are doing aerobics in the sauna to build their hot weather endurance.
  • : Following new legislation in Steam and Clockwork, it is popularly believed that "cheese every day keeps disaster away".
  • : Following new legislation in Steam and Clockwork, a survey of the nation's rivers and children has shown that pesticide levels are at an all-time regional high.
  • : Following new legislation in Steam and Clockwork, one can wake up in Steam and Clockwork and have breakfast in Bigtopia.
  • : Following new legislation in Steam and Clockwork, serial commas clarify the relationship between one's lackeys, the taxpayers, and kinsfolk.
  • : Following new legislation in Steam and Clockwork, the well-off can quite literally buy extra votes.
  • : Following new legislation in Steam and Clockwork, a rusted hulk in Gear and Sprocket harbour has been voted the worst eyesore in The Horde.

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