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Highest Wealthy Incomes: 136thLargest Soda Pop Sector: 206thNudest: 219th
The Wasted Votes of
Benevolent Dictatorship Temporary Liberal State of Emergency
Building Walls, Burning Bridges.
Poncho Man
Influence
Squire
Region
Civil Rights
Superb
Economy
Frightening
Political Freedom
Few

Overview Factbook Dispatches Policies People Government Economy Rank Trend Cards

CSB PM Union

Population8.876 billion

CapitalAdministrative Block D1
LeaderPoncho Man
FaithAtheism

CurrencyRusted Gold Coin
AnimalBat

The Wasted Votes of CSB PM Union is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Poncho Man with an iron fist, and remarkable for its national health service, cultivated feral children, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, cheerful population of 8.876 billion CSB PM Unionians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The medium-sized, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Administrative Block D1. The average income tax rate is 94.7%.

The frighteningly efficient CSB PM Unionian economy, worth a remarkable 4,451 trillion Rusted Gold Coins a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Soda Sales. Average income is a breathtaking 501,481 Rusted Gold Coins, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 3,607,428 per year while the poor average 22,454, a ratio of 160 to 1.

Retirement homes are filled with foreign war criminals, the beauty of coastal towns is marred only slightly by all the closed-down storefronts, economists claim no news is good news, and businessmen behave differently if their supervisor is watching. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. CSB PM Union's national animal is the Bat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Atheism.

CSB PM Union is ranked 1,399th in the world and 11th in NationStates for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 16,808.88 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.

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Highest Wealthy Incomes: 136thLargest Soda Pop Sector: 206thNudest: 219thMost Valuable International Artwork: 259thMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 306thLargest Retail Industry: 416thFattest Citizens: 527thMost Subsidized Industry: 689thHighest Average Incomes: 695thMost Efficient Economies: 722ndLargest Pizza Delivery Sector: 815thLargest Automobile Manufacturing Sector: 857thHighest Unexpected Death Rate: 957thMost Armed: 981stHighest Crime Rates: 1,126thMost Avoided: 1,211thLargest Agricultural Sector: 1,378thLargest Gambling Industry: 1,399thRudest Citizens: 1,456thLargest Black Market: 1,495thMost Rebellious Youth: 1,554thMost Scientifically Advanced: 1,590thLargest Information Technology Sector: 1,699thGreatest Rich-Poor Divides: 1,756thLargest Mining Sector: 1,912thLargest Manufacturing Sector: 2,108thLargest Governments: 2,316thMost Advanced Defense Forces: 2,405thMost Corrupt Governments: 2,547thMost Secular: 2,614thLargest Arms Manufacturing Sector: 2,986thTop
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Largest Furniture Restoration Industry: 3,144thLargest Timber Woodchipping Industry: 3,429thMost Advanced Public Education: 3,840thMost Advanced Public Transport: 4,058thSmartest Citizens: 4,209thMost Influential: 4,216thMost Cheerful Citizens: 4,222ndMost World Assembly Endorsements: 4,591stMost Extensive Public Healthcare: 4,821stMost Cultured: 5,292ndHighest Foreign Aid Spending: 5,491stHighest Economic Output: 5,498thLargest Publishing Industry: 5,575thHighest Average Tax Rates: 5,841stMost Inclusive: 6,938thLargest Welfare Programs: 7,921stLargest Cheese Export Sector: 9,352ndLargest Basket Weaving Sector: 13,304thTop
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Highest Drug Use: 20,067thMost Patriotic: 20,751stHighest Food Quality: 25,461st
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Fattest Citizens: 2nd in the regionNudest: 2nd in the regionHighest Wealthy Incomes: 2nd in the regionGreatest Rich-Poor Divides: 3rd in the regionMost World Assembly Endorsements: 3rd in the regionLargest Pizza Delivery Sector: 4th in the regionMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 4th in the regionHighest Average Incomes: 4th in the regionHighest Unexpected Death Rate: 4th in the regionLargest Automobile Manufacturing Sector: 4th in the regionMost Advanced Defense Forces: 5th in the regionMost Valuable International Artwork: 6th in the regionMost Scientifically Advanced: 7th in the regionTop
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Most Avoided: 8th in the regionLargest Retail Industry: 9th in the regionMost Efficient Economies: 10th in the regionLargest Governments: 11th in the regionLargest Gambling Industry: 11th in the regionMost Advanced Public Transport: 11th in the regionLargest Soda Pop Sector: 13th in the regionHighest Foreign Aid Spending: 14th in the regionMost Secular: 15th in the regionMost Subsidized Industry: 18th in the regionMost Armed: 22nd in the regionLargest Information Technology Sector: 23rd in the regionMost Cheerful Citizens: 24th in the regionMost Pro-Market: 26th in the regionMost Extensive Public Healthcare: 28th in the regionLargest Insurance Industry: 30th in the regionHighest Average Tax Rates: 30th in the regionSmartest Citizens: 30th in the regionMost Influential: 30th in the regionMost Rebellious Youth: 36th in the regionHighest Crime Rates: 37th in the regionTop
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Largest Welfare Programs: 45th in the regionLargest Trout Fishing Sector: 47th in the regionMost Advanced Public Education: 54th in the regionLargest Agricultural Sector: 70th in the regionMost Cultured: 74th in the region

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Following new legislation in CSB PM Union, businessmen behave differently if their supervisor is watching.
  • : Following new legislation in CSB PM Union, economists claim no news is good news.
  • : Following new legislation in CSB PM Union, the beauty of coastal towns is marred only slightly by all the closed-down storefronts.
  • : Following new legislation in CSB PM Union, retirement homes are filled with foreign war criminals.
  • : Following new legislation in CSB PM Union, advertisements for jobs in the sciences run in fashion magazines.
  • : CSB PM Union adopted General Assembly Resolution #15 "".
  • : CSB PM Union adopted General Assembly Resolution #14 "".
  • : Following new legislation in CSB PM Union, lip-readers are often left perplexed by political rallies.
  • : Following new legislation in CSB PM Union, angry citizens complain that there isn't enough geographical diversity on the new banknotes.
  • : Following new legislation in CSB PM Union, autumn landscape paintings feature men stripping leaves from bare branches with a vacuum.

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