Population | 22.289 billion |
Capital | The Hut |
Leader | Nobody |
Faith | a minor religion |
Currency | Shiny Rock |
Animal | Great Silver Bird |
The Truly Free State of Western Scientificum is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Nobody with a fair hand, and notable for its infamous sell-swords, ritual sacrifices, and flagrant waste-dumping. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless, devout population of 22.289 billion Western Scientists live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.
The minute, corrupt, liberal, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, is effectively ruled by the Department of Industry, with Welfare and Healthcare not funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Hut. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 3.8%.
The frighteningly efficient Western Scientist economy, worth a remarkable 2,419 trillion Shiny Rocks a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 108,532 Shiny Rocks, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 555,674 per year while the poor average 11,639, a ratio of 47.7 to 1.
Deceased politicians spam the public with thousands of AI-generated voicemails, having skeletons in one's closet is no longer just a macabre idiom, the ingredients list for most food products covers the entire surface of the packaging, and life is somewhat repetitive. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Western Scientificum's national animal is the Great Silver Bird, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is a minor religion.
Western Scientificum is ranked 343,904th in the world and 4,933rd in the Rejected Realms for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 3.84 Effective Tax Rate.
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Western Scientificum, life is somewhat repetitive.
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Western Scientificum, the ingredients list for most food products covers the entire surface of the packaging.
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Western Scientificum, having skeletons in one's closet is no longer just a macabre idiom.
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Western Scientificum, deceased politicians spam the public with thousands of AI-generated voicemails.
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Western Scientificum, televangelists flaunt their expensive cars when they attend charity events.
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Western Scientificum, life is somewhat repetitive.
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Western Scientificum, families must live in a village for a century before they get any say in how it runs.
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Western Scientificum, bounty hunters have been dispatched to hunt down rogue bounty hunters.
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Western Scientificum, no one is quite sure what many government officials look like.
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Western Scientificum, books are so highly regarded in Western Scientificum that libraries are often revered as holy shrines.