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Greatest Rich-Poor Divides: 1,526thHighest Wealthy Incomes: 1,808thFattest Citizens: 3,623rd
The Conglomerated Corporations of
Corporate Police State
Pull by the Bootstraps
Grand Executive Alvarez
Influence
Handshaker
Region
Civil Rights
Unheard Of
Economy
Frightening
Political Freedom
Rare

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United Free Provinces

Population2.541 billion

CapitalTopia
LeaderGrand Executive Alvarez
FaithCorporatist

CurrencyPremium Currency
AnimalAnt

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.

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Greatest Rich-Poor Divides: 1,526thHighest Wealthy Incomes: 1,808thTop
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Fattest Citizens: 3,623rdLargest Retail Industry: 3,898thLargest Pizza Delivery Sector: 4,660thHighest Unexpected Death Rate: 5,598thHighest Disposable Incomes: 5,682ndMost Avoided: 6,158thLargest Mining Sector: 9,049thMost Secular: 9,488thMost World Assembly Endorsements: 9,821stLargest Furniture Restoration Industry: 10,004thMost Corrupt Governments: 11,434thTop
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Most Scientifically Advanced: 14,718thLargest Soda Pop Sector: 17,083rdLargest Automobile Manufacturing Sector: 17,434thLargest Information Technology Sector: 18,223rdHighest Average Incomes: 18,560thMost Advanced Defense Forces: 20,286thMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 20,523rdMost Patriotic: 20,709thMost Efficient Economies: 21,395thMost Conservative: 23,415thMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 25,067thLargest Black Market: 27,175thLargest Manufacturing Sector: 28,184thLargest Arms Manufacturing Sector: 28,499th
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Greatest Rich-Poor Divides: 1st in the regionLargest Pizza Delivery Sector: 1st in the regionLargest Mining Sector: 1st in the regionLargest Furniture Restoration Industry: 1st in the regionFattest Citizens: 1st in the regionLargest Retail Industry: 1st in the regionMost Avoided: 1st in the regionHighest Unexpected Death Rate: 1st in the regionHighest Wealthy Incomes: 1st in the regionTop
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Highest Disposable Incomes: 2nd in the regionLargest Soda Pop Sector: 3rd in the regionLargest Automobile Manufacturing Sector: 3rd in the regionMost Corrupt Governments: 4th in the regionMost Pro-Market: 5th in the regionMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 5th in the regionTop
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Most Scientifically Advanced: 6th in the regionLargest Arms Manufacturing Sector: 6th in the regionMost Secular: 6th in the regionLargest Timber Woodchipping Industry: 6th in the regionMost Patriotic: 6th in the regionHighest Average Incomes: 6th in the regionLargest Information Technology Sector: 7th in the regionLargest Black Market: 7th in the regionMost Advanced Defense Forces: 7th in the regionMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 7th in the regionLargest Manufacturing Sector: 7th in the regionMost Efficient Economies: 7th in the regionMost Subsidized Industry: 8th in the regionMost Conservative: 8th in the regionMost Stationary: 9th in the regionMost Extreme: 10th in the region

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.

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