Population | 6.164 billion |
Currency | salt |
Animal | llama |
The Republic of Achlys 21 is a colossal, orderly nation, renowned for its soft-spoken computers, frequent executions, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 6.164 billion Achlys 21ians 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 relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 18.5%.
The very strong Achlys 21ian economy, worth 546 trillion salts 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, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Gambling, and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 88,700 salts, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 322,943 per year while the poor average 17,320, a ratio of 18.6 to 1.
Mining safety laws are often more expensive than what's being mined, wedding bands come in pairs to form wedding manacles, Leader's exquisite office door is replaced monthly due to angry petitioners, and obstetricians are not allowed to publish ultrasound pictures of fetuses in medical journals. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Achlys 21's national animal is the llama, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Achlys 21 is ranked 247,131st in the world and 3,735th in Artificial Solar System for Most Stationary, with 19.82218870268 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Achlys 21's influence in Artificial Solar System rose from "Hatchling" to "Newcomer".
- : Achlys 21's influence in Artificial Solar System rose from "Unproven" to "Hatchling".
- : Achlys 21's influence in Artificial Solar System rose from "Zero" to "Unproven".
- : Achlys 21 relocated from Lazarus to Artificial Solar System.
- : Achlys 21 applied to join the World Assembly.
- : Achlys 21's influence in Lazarus rose from "Unproven" to "Hatchling".
- : Achlys 21's influence in Lazarus rose from "Zero" to "Unproven".
- : Achlys 21 was refounded in Lazarus.
- : Achlys 21 ceased to exist in Balder.
- : Achlys 21's influence in Balder fell from "Newcomer" to "Hatchling".