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Largest Cheese Export Sector: 1,481stMost Devout: 10,044thLargest Timber Woodchipping Industry: 11,731st
The Revolutionary Council of
Psychotic Dictatorship
Nihil timemus nisi Deum.
Influence
Sprat
Civil Rights
Unheard Of
Economy
All-Consuming
Political Freedom
Rare

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Golgotho

Population743 million

CapitalBromjunaar

CurrencyScrip
AnimalAltai

The Revolutionary Council of Golgotho is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its national health service, parental licensing program, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 743 million Golgothans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bromjunaar. The average income tax rate is 49.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Golgothan economy, worth 93.5 trillion Scrips a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Cheese Exports, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 125,784 Scrips, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Lending money has become a major liability, an enormous health awareness programme is underway, ethnic minorities are often refused admission to some of the nation's best schools, and a stocking with a crooked seam or a tie without a full Windsor knot are grounds for instant dismissal. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Golgotho's national animal is the Altai, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Golgotho is ranked 178,836th in the world and 69th in Greater Dienstad for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 48.12 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.

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Largest Cheese Export Sector: 1,481stTop
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Most Devout: 10,044thLargest Timber Woodchipping Industry: 11,731stLargest Manufacturing Sector: 13,753rdLargest Automobile Manufacturing Sector: 13,842ndTop
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Most Authoritarian: 15,036thLargest Arms Manufacturing Sector: 16,244thLargest Mining Sector: 17,268thMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 17,292ndMost Patriotic: 18,160thMost Corrupt Governments: 20,904thMost Advanced Defense Forces: 24,491stMost Conservative: 27,026thHighest Disposable Incomes: 27,187thHighest Poor Incomes: 27,485thLowest Crime Rates: 28,882nd
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Largest Cheese Export Sector: 4th in the regionTop
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Most Authoritarian: 6th in the regionMost Extreme: 8th in the regionLargest Automobile Manufacturing Sector: 8th in the region

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Following new legislation in Golgotho, a stocking with a crooked seam or a tie without a full Windsor knot are grounds for instant dismissal.
  • : Following new legislation in Golgotho, ethnic minorities are often refused admission to some of the nation's best schools.
  • : Following new legislation in Golgotho, an enormous health awareness programme is underway.
  • : Following new legislation in Golgotho, lending money has become a major liability.
  • : Following new legislation in Golgotho, citizens have reported seeing strange rays of light emanating from the moon.
  • : Golgotho was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector and the Top 10% for Lowest Crime Rates and Highest Poor Incomes.
  • : Following new legislation in Golgotho, the once prosperous capital is in utter decline.
  • : Following new legislation in Golgotho, the nation has nearly as many history museums as Golgothans.
  • : Following new legislation in Golgotho, grocery stores can be audibly identified by the giggling emerging from them.
  • : Following new legislation in Golgotho, being able to unblock a u-bend pipe is considered a universally essential skill.

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