Nation/Cresenthia

The Empire of Cresenthia is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by the emperor with a fair hand, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, unlimited-speed roads, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 5.38 billion Cresenthians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cresenthia City. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Cresenthian economy, worth a remarkable 1,446 trillion Cresenthian Pounds a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an amazing 268,882 Cresenthian Pounds, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,559,672 per year while the poor average 21,998, a ratio of 70.9 to 1.

The nation is reliant on the principle of mutually assured destruction to maintain its security, the nation's new foreign policy of 'very disproportionate retribution' has its neighbors on edge, a faint smell of body odour can be detected at several miles distance from the National Science Park, and X-Files ratings have hit an all-time low. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Cresenthia's national animal is the Brown Bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Cresenthia is ranked 24,717th in the world and 19th in KAISERREICH for Nudest, with 200.5 Cheeks Per Square Mile.