Population | 23.967 billion |
Capital | Gladion |
Leader | Gladio |
Faith | Gladion |
Currency | Gold |
Animal | Lynx |
The OMG it's the nation of Gladio II is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Gladio with an iron fist, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, smutty television, and ritual sacrifices. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 23.967 billion Gladiators 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gladion. The average income tax rate is 72.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Gladiator economy, worth a remarkable 5,580 trillion Golds 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, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Woodchip 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 an amazing 232,836 Golds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.
Gladion now admits men and women into its clergy, muscular women are banned from competing in sporting competitions, it's believed that women's brains will overheat if they think for themselves, and politicians can't accept birthday presents from their own children. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gladio II's national animal is the Lynx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Gladion.
Gladio II is ranked 6,895th in the world and 514th in NationStates for Highest Average Incomes, with 232,836.05 Standard Monetary Units.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Gladio II, politicians can't accept birthday presents from their own children.
- : Following new legislation in Gladio II, it's believed that women's brains will overheat if they think for themselves.
- : Following new legislation in Gladio II, muscular women are banned from competing in sporting competitions.
- : Following new legislation in Gladio II, Gladion now admits men and women into its clergy.
- : Following new legislation in Gladio II, the government is seen to favor traditionalist religions.
- : Following new legislation in Gladio II, military minds worry that 'the blue screen of death' on brand new operating systems may be a literal description.
- : Gladio II was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Authoritarian.
- : Following new legislation in Gladio II, the silencing of dissent speaks volumes about the quality of Gladiator democracy.
- : Following new legislation in Gladio II, government-sponsored gallows are being erected by Violetist temples.
- : Following new legislation in Gladio II, giggling elementary school newspaper reporters want to know why Gladio is a silly poophead.