Population | 38.662 billion |
Leader | President Evil |
Currency | oral favor |
Animal | scholarly dragonfly |
The Experimental Technocracy of The University Project is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by President Evil with an iron fist, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, ban on automobiles, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 38.662 billion Earthlings are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.
The tiny, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 8.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Terran economy, worth an astonishing 10,529 trillion oral favors a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, highly specialized black market in Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 272,337 oral favors, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Auditors are gutting every governmental department, the needs of the living outweigh the needs of the dead, the government spends more on chasing distant comets than on basic infrastructure, and soup kitchens are the only things doing roaring business. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. The University Project's national animal is the scholarly dragonfly, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.
The University Project is ranked 293,937th in the world and 6,488th in The North Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 5.6 law-abiding acts per hour.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in The University Project, soup kitchens are the only things doing roaring business.
- : Following new legislation in The University Project, the government spends more on chasing distant comets than on basic infrastructure.
- : Following new legislation in The University Project, the needs of the living outweigh the needs of the dead.
- : Following new legislation in The University Project, auditors are gutting every governmental department.
- : Following new legislation in The University Project, young children are regularly seen wagering pocket money at blackjack tables.
- : Following new legislation in The University Project, spotted owl meat is used as bait to lure wolves into traps.
- : Following new legislation in The University Project, abortions are routinely performed in the nation's hospitals.
- : Following new legislation in The University Project, President Evil lives life on the open road - complete with groupies.
- : Following new legislation in The University Project, the voyages of obsolete star-trekking satellites on deliberate escape orbits are only just beginning.
- : Following new legislation in The University Project, the mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas.