Population | 16.723 billion |
Currency | Pound |
Animal | Hound |
The Republic of HMS Virtue is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 16.723 billion HMS Virtueans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.
The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Social Policy, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 59.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The large but sluggish HMS Virtuean economy, worth 368 trillion Pounds 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 slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Furniture Restoration, Pizza Delivery, and Cheese Exports. 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 22,028 Pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
HMS Virtue has designated HMS Virtue City as its capital city, the government awards prizes to television shows featuring stereotype-breaking minority roles, a ban on unsolicited cold calling in all forms is in effect, and crowds of flag-burning protesters tend to accidentally become crowds of burning protesters. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. HMS Virtue's national animal is the Hound, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
HMS Virtue is ranked 20,393rd in the world and 22nd in The Alpha Legion for Most Stationary, with 1,609.05068548468 days.
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- : HMS Virtue was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Influential.
- : HMS Virtue was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Foreign Aid Spending.
- : HMS Virtue was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Influential.
- : HMS Virtue was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Foreign Aid Spending.
- : HMS Virtue was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Foreign Aid Spending.
- : HMS Virtue was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Foreign Aid Spending.
- : HMS Virtue was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most World Assembly Endorsements.
- : HMS Virtue was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Foreign Aid Spending.
- : HMS Virtue was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most World Assembly Endorsements.
- : HMS Virtue was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Foreign Aid Spending and Largest Black Market.