The People's Republic of Blood Cold
"One Tree Falls For Another"
UN Category: Democratic Socialists
Civil Rights: Very Good
Economy: Imploded
Political Freedoms: Good
The People's Republic of Blood Cold is a very large, environmentally stunning nation,
remarkable for its compulsory military service. Its hard-nosed population of 74 million are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat
immoral and
corrupt.
It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Education, and Defence.
The average income tax rate is 83%, and even higher for the wealthy. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising fourteen-year-old boys selling lemonade on the sidewalk,
although the government is looking at stamping this out.
Citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits, cars are banned from built-up areas, welfare funding has recently gone through the roof, and
the words 'private' and 'enterprise' must never appear in the same sentence.
Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Blood Cold's national animal is the silverback gorilla, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the hemoglobin.
Blood Cold is ranked 15th in the region and 85,462nd in the world for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry.