Population | 3.2 billion |
Capital | Prento Cale |
Leader | Raissa Carvalho |
Faith | Roman Catholicism |
Currency | Grand Olive |
Animal | Weeping Flesh Hive |
The Social Republic of Portzania is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Raissa Carvalho with an iron fist, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, pith helmet sales, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 3.2 billion Portzanians 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 enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Prento Cale. The average income tax rate is 81.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Portzanian economy, worth 512 trillion Grand Olives 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 Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, 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 160,028 Grand Olives, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Invasive drug testing is now performed at elementary school sports days, when the air force says "Black Hawk Down" they mean the feathers of the Portzanian dark-plume goshawk, the well-to-do in Fifth Empire are never on time for important appointments, and criminals rejoice in the streets as the entire police force is sent away on a training retreat. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Portzania's national animal is the Weeping Flesh Hive, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.
Portzania is ranked 20,327th in the world and 19th in Fifth Empire for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 7,090.76 on the Gilded Widget Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Portzania was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Authoritarian.
- : Portzania was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Authoritarian.
- : Portzania was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Primitive and the Top 5% for Largest Black Market, Highest Crime Rates, Most Patriotic, and Most World Assembly Endorsements.
- : Portzania lodged a message on the Fifth Empire Regional Message Board.
- : Portzania was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Poor Incomes.
- : Portzania was endorsed by The Empire of Soviet cobra communist republic.
- : Portzania's influence in Fifth Empire fell from "Auxiliary" to "Ambassador".
- : Portzania's influence in Fifth Empire rose from "Ambassador" to "Auxiliary".
- : Portzania voted against the World Assembly Resolution "Liberate Realm of the Whispering Winds".
World Assembly
Endorsements Received: 33 » Chalybea, The Iron Stars, Heijmskringla, Zaruworldo, Cartiga, The Children of Gerizim, Irsfamen, Ausleria, Malotihuacan, The Hessa Islands, The Greater Imperial Russian Empire, New Anarchikon, Saiwana, Songateri, Vinitas, Knights of LUSITANIA, New Slavicia, The Korean Papal States, New Burnet, Valdonia, Serenissima Roma, Cruciland, Nan Sarunai, Serra-Bandy, Roma Oriens, The Supreme Islamic State, Wuerttemburg, Santa Monica Order, Slavianst, Zarathustra Faschisfe Militia, Zeepind, Carolina Sur, and Soviet cobra communist republic.