Population | 2.972 billion |
Capital | Scuztown |
Leader | Governor OSullivan |
Currency | Pondari |
Animal | Snarfcat |
The Kingdom of Pondingonia is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Governor OSullivan with an iron fist, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, ubiquitous missile silos, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 2.972 billion Pondingonians 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 relatively small, corrupt government prioritizes Industry, with Defense, Education, and Administration also on the agenda, while International Aid and Spirituality are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Scuztown. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 18.4%.
The frighteningly efficient Pondingonian economy, worth 675 trillion Pondaris a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Gambling. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 227,432 Pondaris, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 744,628 per year while the poor average 52,174, a ratio of 14.3 to 1.
Recorded music can be rented but not bought from record companies, nine-year-olds' chat logs are scoured for evidence of radicalization, students are explicitly allowed to write answers on their forearms before exams, and street preachers spend more time condemning government bureaucracy than passers-by. Crime is pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Pondingonia's national animal is the Snarfcat, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
Pondingonia is ranked 11,074th in the world and 131st in The East Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 9,300.56 on the Gilded Widget Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Pondingonia, street preachers spend more time condemning government bureaucracy than passers-by.
- : Following new legislation in Pondingonia, students are explicitly allowed to write answers on their forearms before exams.
- : Following new legislation in Pondingonia, nine-year-olds' chat logs are scoured for evidence of radicalization.
- : Pondingonia was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Cultured.
- : Pondingonia was endorsed by The Confederacy of Global Helvetia.
- : Pondingonia endorsed The Principality of Coada.
- : Pondingonia endorsed The Ascended Peoples of The Holy Utopian Republic.
- : Pondingonia endorsed The Confederacy of Global Helvetia.
- : Following new legislation in Pondingonia, recorded music can be rented but not bought from record companies.
- : Following new legislation in Pondingonia, violently opinionated speakers can be heard preaching their hateful views on every street corner.
World Assembly
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