Population | 2.541 billion |
Capital | Topia |
Leader | Grand Executive Alvarez |
Faith | Corporatist |
Currency | Premium Currency |
Animal | Ant |
The Conglomerated Corporations of United Free Provinces is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Grand Executive Alvarez with an iron fist, and remarkable for its public floggings, ubiquitous missile silos, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 2.541 billion Free Provincesians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.
The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Topia. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 32.9%.
The frighteningly efficient Free Provincesian economy, worth 411 trillion Premium Currencies a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is an impressive 162,009 Premium Currencies, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,212,350 per year while the poor average 6,286, a ratio of 192 to 1.
The meaning of life was recently discovered in the patch notes for Version 1.42, it is still not known if the commander in chief outranks the supreme commander, the deaf are perplexed when the weather report tells them that the wind will be "bringing some rain along the Nazi ghosts", and economics is a shrinking field. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. United Free Provinces's national animal is the Ant, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Corporatist.
United Free Provinces is ranked 285,334th in the world and 111th in Hive for Highest Food Quality, scoring 4.8 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in United Free Provinces, economics is a shrinking field.
- : Following new legislation in United Free Provinces, the deaf are perplexed when the weather report tells them that the wind will be "bringing some rain along the Nazi ghosts".
- : Following new legislation in United Free Provinces, it is still not known if the commander in chief outranks the supreme commander.
- : Following new legislation in United Free Provinces, the meaning of life was recently discovered in the patch notes for Version 1.42.
- : Following new legislation in United Free Provinces, there's a mortuary next to every Free Provincesian restaurant.
- : Following new legislation in United Free Provinces, the government is more interested in identifying problems than fixing them.
- : Following new legislation in United Free Provinces, sections of the police receive paramilitary training.
- : Following new legislation in United Free Provinces, chrome-clad space marines are such stuff that dreams are made on.
- : Following new legislation in United Free Provinces, urban high-volume mailers now receive their mail via chauffeur-driven limousines.
- : Following new legislation in United Free Provinces, new arrivals are asked the location of the Minister of the Interior's birthmark.
World Assembly
Endorsements Received: 5 » Europan Union, Narvatus II, DysonsphereConstructors, A Puppet of My Nation, and Galali.