Population | 8.426 billion |
Currency | spice |
Animal | sandworm |
The Protectorate of Spice Harvester 49 is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its strictly enforced bedtime, unlimited-speed roads, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.426 billion Spice Harvester 49ians 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Industry, although Administration, Education, and Environment are also considered important, while International Aid and Public Transport aren't funded at all. The average income tax rate is 44.7%.
The frighteningly efficient Spice Harvester 49ian economy, worth 642 trillion spices a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 76,307 spices, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.1 times as much as the poorest.
Female restaurant chefs are not allowed to have male customers, nobody ever seems to enter or leave the armour-plated flying castle that serves as the seat of government, community organizers have given up going door to door because nobody is home, and the Spice Harvester 49ian Arts Council pays teenagers to sit through opera performances. Crime is a major problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Spice Harvester 49's national animal is the sandworm, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Spice Harvester 49 is ranked 75,189th in the world and 89th in Jihad Army of the Emperor for Most Stationary, with 626.999945942 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Spice Harvester 49, the Spice Harvester 49ian Arts Council pays teenagers to sit through opera performances.
- : Following new legislation in Spice Harvester 49, community organizers have given up going door to door because nobody is home.
- : Following new legislation in Spice Harvester 49, nobody ever seems to enter or leave the armour-plated flying castle that serves as the seat of government.
- : Following new legislation in Spice Harvester 49, female restaurant chefs are not allowed to have male customers.
- : Spice Harvester 49 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Black Market.
- : Following new legislation in Spice Harvester 49, genetic research has been halted.
- : Following new legislation in Spice Harvester 49, light entertainment isn't dead.
- : Following new legislation in Spice Harvester 49, televangelists often claim they can cure your Lupus if you donate enough money.
- : Following new legislation in Spice Harvester 49, swings are now more popular than see-saws in children's playgrounds.
- : Spice Harvester 49 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Armed.