Population | 4.589 billion |
Capital | Underground Paystation |
Leader | Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner |
Currency | Gold Coins |
Animal | Van Owen |
The 75th Corporatist Corps of HubenPhone is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner with an iron fist, and remarkable for its suspicion of poets and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical, devout population of 4.589 billion Mercs are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.
The medium-sized, well-organized government prioritizes Healthcare, although Welfare, Defense, and Administration are also considered important, while Public Transport receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Underground Paystation. The average income tax rate is 35.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.
The large but inefficient Corporatist Merc economy, worth 179 trillion Gold Coins a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Gambling, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 39,111 Gold Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
The weather in Underground Paystation is always 'pigeons with a chance of droppings', dangerous criminals are often 'accidentally' sent on one-way trips to Maxtopia, children who can't memorize their multiplication tables are sent to the mines, and citizens praise the weeds that overwhelm their narrow vegetable realm. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. HubenPhone's national animal is the Van Owen, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
HubenPhone is ranked 130,994th in the world and 13th in Rings Around Uranus for Safest, scoring 68 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : HubenPhone became WA Delegate of Rings Around Uranus.
- : HubenPhone's influence in Rings Around Uranus rose from "Squire" to "Apprentice".
- : HubenPhone was endorsed by The Nomadic Peoples of Alvarin.
- : HubenPhone was endorsed by The Empire of Birdim.
- : HubenPhone's influence in Rings Around Uranus rose from "Page" to "Squire".
- : HubenPhone's influence in Rings Around Uranus rose from "Shoeshiner" to "Page".
- : HubenPhone's influence in Rings Around Uranus rose from "Zero" to "Shoeshiner".
- : HubenPhone relocated from The Supreme Federation of New Earth to Rings Around Uranus.
- : The Republic of SPUC4 dismissed HubenPhone as OBERST, KAISERREICH of The Supreme Federation of New Earth.
- : HubenPhone's influence in The Supreme Federation of New Earth rose from "Squire" to "Apprentice".