Population | 4.077 billion |
Leader | VW Wagen |
Currency | Beetles |
Animal | Red Beetle |
The Hot Commodity of Red Beetle is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by VW Wagen with an even hand, and notable for its public floggings, free-roaming dinosaurs, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, devout population of 4.077 billion Red Beetleans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.
The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 67.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The all-consuming Red Beetlean economy, worth 357 trillion Beetleses a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 87,599 Beetleses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Red Beetle City is a police state during international summits, members of the government all have oddly similar anecdotes about their childhoods, rumor has it that VW Wagen has won three lotteries in a row, and concert halls sport signs proclaiming "No Shorts, Sandals or Swastikas". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Red Beetle's national animal is the Red Beetle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Red Beetle is ranked 259,945th in the world and 8,501st in Balder for Most Stationary, with 14.96826819808 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Red Beetle was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Scientifically Advanced.
- : Red Beetle's influence in Balder rose from "Unproven" to "Hatchling".
- : Red Beetle's influence in Balder rose from "Zero" to "Unproven".
- : Red Beetle was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Scientifically Advanced.
- : Red Beetle was refounded in Balder.
- : Red Beetle ceased to exist in Official European Union.
- : Red Beetle was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Developed.
- : Red Beetle was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Developed.
- : Red Beetle's influence in Official European Union fell from "Powerbroker" to "Negotiator".
- : Red Beetle's influence in Official European Union rose from "Negotiator" to "Powerbroker".