Population | 11.911 billion |
Capital | Beornisgate |
Leader | 'Ursa Major' Wheldrake |
Faith | Science |
Currency | Bob |
Animal | Bear |
The Dominion of The Dezreik is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by 'Ursa Major' Wheldrake with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, compulsory military service, and smutty television. The compassionate, cynical population of 11.911 billion Dezreikians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.
The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Beornisgate. The average income tax rate is 98.5%.
The frighteningly efficient Dezreikian economy, worth a remarkable 2,360 trillion Bobs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 198,210 Bobs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Feeling like a winner comes at a price, visiting the best Dezreikian restaurants requires keeping a visa on file, Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity, and cub scouts are being asked to hand in their woggles as the state withdraws funding for scouting. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Dezreik's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Science.
The Dezreik is ranked 1,718th in the world and 2nd in International Democratic Union for Lowest Crime Rates, with 150.39 law-abiding acts per hour.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in The Dezreik, cub scouts are being asked to hand in their woggles as the state withdraws funding for scouting.
- : Following new legislation in The Dezreik, Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity.
- : Following new legislation in The Dezreik, visiting the best Dezreikian restaurants requires keeping a visa on file.
- : Following new legislation in The Dezreik, feeling like a winner comes at a price.
- : Following new legislation in The Dezreik, brains have been removed from lists of best brain foods.
- : The Dezreik was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Largest Welfare Programs.
- : The Dezreik was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Largest Governments and the Top 10% for Most Cultured.
- : The Dezreik was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Publishing Industry.
- : The Dezreik was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Longest Average Lifespans.
- : Following new legislation in The Dezreik, children are shocked to find others "just like them" when they are taken out of the forest.