Population | 42.724 billion |
Capital | Mintaka |
Leader | Lord Maximilian III |
Faith | Christianity |
Currency | bone |
Animal | kestrel |
The Flatulent Bleatings of Pompous Windbags is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Lord Maximilian III with an iron fist, and remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, flagrant waste-dumping, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 42.724 billion Windbags are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.
The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mintaka. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 57.0%.
The frighteningly efficient Pompous Windbagsian economy, worth an astonishing 14,325 trillion bones a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is an amazing 335,310 bones, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,486,949 per year while the poor average 13,456, a ratio of 184 to 1.
Bus shelters seem to be designed to let rain in, rumours have it that a secret police is responsible for the recent spate of missing persons, extraordinary rendition is nothing out of the ordinary, and murderers frequently escape punishment by claiming they were protecting their honour. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force. Pompous Windbags's national animal is the kestrel, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Christianity.
Pompous Windbags is ranked 8th in the world and 1st in Free States of Gaia for Most Stationary, with 6,943.70388936 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Pompous Windbags, murderers frequently escape punishment by claiming they were protecting their honour.
- : Following new legislation in Pompous Windbags, extraordinary rendition is nothing out of the ordinary.
- : Following new legislation in Pompous Windbags, rumours have it that a secret police is responsible for the recent spate of missing persons.
- : Following new legislation in Pompous Windbags, bus shelters seem to be designed to let rain in.
- : Following new legislation in Pompous Windbags, you have to be a billionaire to qualify for welfare.
- : Following new legislation in Pompous Windbags, the government's only official statement on the burning down of Mintaka was that 'they shouldn't have been so careless'.
- : Following new legislation in Pompous Windbags, citizens are permitted to carry concealed handguns.
- : Following new legislation in Pompous Windbags, government-run brothels can be found on every street corner.
- : Following new legislation in Pompous Windbags, foreign 'investors' have been taking a great interest in the new secret shuttle.
- : Following new legislation in Pompous Windbags, politicians are often seen with soldiers pointing guns at their heads.