Population | 13.763 billion |
Capital | Gear and Sprocket |
Leader | Archsophist Archimedes Babbage |
Faith | Way of Gas and Vacuum |
Currency | pneumatiCERT |
Animal | Automaton |
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.
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.