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Largest Gambling Industry: 639thLargest Mining Sector: 1,314thLargest Retail Industry: 1,322nd
The Mercenary of
Iron Fist Consumerists Imperialist Pig Dog Oppressors
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Influence
Superpower
Vice-Delegate
Civil Rights
Rare
Economy
Frightening
Political Freedom
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Hero Ike

Population9.802 billion

CapitalCrimea
LeaderGreil
FaithCards

Currencygold
Animalhorse

The Mercenary of Hero Ike is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Greil with an iron fist, and remarkable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, frequent executions, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 9.802 billion Heroes are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Crimea. The average income tax rate is 73.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ikean economy, worth a remarkable 2,205 trillion golds a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 224,969 golds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

The study of quantum physics has been outlawed for fear of accidentally causing the end of the world, politicians can be condescending (which by the way means "showing an attitude of patronising superiority"), holiday-makers leave on the same clandestine boats that illegal immigrants arrive in, and children are raised bilingual from an early age. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hero Ike's national animal is the horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Cards.

Hero Ike is ranked 19,387th in the world and 2nd in Confederation of New lands for Most Stationary, with 1,640.67945690892 days.

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Largest Gambling Industry: 639thLargest Mining Sector: 1,314thLargest Retail Industry: 1,322ndLargest Black Market: 2,263rdMost Avoided: 2,345thTop
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Most Corrupt Governments: 3,489thMost Secular: 3,867thHighest Unexpected Death Rate: 3,899thMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 4,184thLargest Soda Pop Sector: 4,545thMost Subsidized Industry: 6,306thHighest Poor Incomes: 6,739thMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 6,778thHighest Average Incomes: 7,252ndNudest: 8,019thMost Valuable International Artwork: 10,419thHighest Economic Output: 10,834thMost Efficient Economies: 11,242ndMost Armed: 11,687thLargest Information Technology Sector: 13,145thMost Advanced Defense Forces: 13,769thMost Advanced Public Education: 14,666thMost Patriotic: 14,708thTop
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Most Advanced Public Transport: 15,675thLargest Arms Manufacturing Sector: 15,897thMost Influential: 18,655thMost Stationary: 19,387thLargest Governments: 21,052ndHighest Wealthy Incomes: 23,319thLargest Manufacturing Sector: 23,423rdHighest Average Tax Rates: 29,186th

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Hero Ike was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Advanced Public Education and the Top 10% for Highest Average Tax Rates.
  • : Following new legislation in Hero Ike, children are raised bilingual from an early age.
  • : Following new legislation in Hero Ike, holiday-makers leave on the same clandestine boats that illegal immigrants arrive in.
  • : Following new legislation in Hero Ike, politicians can be condescending (which by the way means "showing an attitude of patronising superiority").
  • : Following new legislation in Hero Ike, the study of quantum physics has been outlawed for fear of accidentally causing the end of the world.
  • : Following new legislation in Hero Ike, libraries are replacing history books and classic novels with technical manuals and trades directories to match the nation's changing demands.
  • : Following new legislation in Hero Ike, signatures have been replaced with illegible scribbles.
  • : Following new legislation in Hero Ike, the people's love for Greil is little more than self-preservation.
  • : Following new legislation in Hero Ike, tourists are denied entry because of a distant relative married to a Lilliputian.
  • : Following new legislation in Hero Ike, the hardest thing for a mining operation to dig through is government red tape.

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