The Watchfires of Uncle Val is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, free-roaming dinosaurs, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 23.747 billion Uncle Valians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."
The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 71.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Uncle Valian economy, worth a remarkable 2,583 trillion $$s a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Tourism. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 108,775 $$s, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Policy reversals are more often graceful demi-détournés than u-turns, abortion is only legal in unusual circumstances, programmers often reinvent the wheel, and hordes of faceless civil servants are running cities. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Uncle Val's national animal is the ^-^, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Uncle Val is ranked 235,342nd in the world and 1st in Conquered and Liberated Regions of UNAF for Safest, scoring 20.51 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.
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Uncle Val was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Valuable International Artwork and the Top 10% for Most Authoritarian and Most Patriotic.
- : Following new legislation in Uncle Val, hordes of faceless civil servants are running cities.
- : Following new legislation in Uncle Val, programmers often reinvent the wheel.
- : Uncle Val was reclassified from "Psychotic Dictatorship" to "Iron Fist Consumerists".
- : Following new legislation in Uncle Val, abortion is only legal in unusual circumstances.
- : Following new legislation in Uncle Val, policy reversals are more often graceful demi-détournés than u-turns.
- : Following new legislation in Uncle Val, half-submerged and flooded seaside hotels are technically still next to the beach.
- : Following new legislation in Uncle Val, corruption is a game of two halves.
- : Uncle Val was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Stationary, the Top 5% for Highest Economic Output, Largest Black Market, and Most Valuable International Artwork, and the Top 10% for Highest Poor Incomes.
- : Uncle Val was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most World Assembly Endorsements.
