Population | 22.853 billion |
Currency | Gold |
Animal | Elephant |
The Grand Duchy of 17 is a gargantuan, efficient nation, notable for its lack of airports, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 22.853 billion 17ians 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 69.7%.
The all-consuming 17ian economy, worth a remarkable 3,216 trillion Golds 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. 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 impressive 140,758 Golds, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 550,685 per year while the poor average 24,510, a ratio of 22.5 to 1.
Teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, drug deals return to the streets as legions of undercover officers stalk the dark web, poaching has been on the rise after animals from the nation's zoos were released into the wild, and space shuttles regularly launch rubbish into space. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. 17's national animal is the Elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
17 is ranked 233,873rd in the world and 7,201st in Balder for Most Stationary, with 23.15306157092 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : 17's influence in Balder rose from "Hatchling" to "Newcomer".
- : 17 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Advanced Law Enforcement and the Top 10% for Most Advanced Defense Forces.
- : 17's influence in Balder rose from "Unproven" to "Hatchling".
- : 17's influence in Balder rose from "Zero" to "Unproven".
- : 17 was refounded in Balder.
- : 17 ceased to exist in Balder.
- : 17 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Advanced Law Enforcement.
- : 17 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Advanced Defense Forces.
- : 17 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Patriotic.
- : 17 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Patriotic.