Nation/The Iron Born
 The Iron Born Flag | |
| Statistics | |
|---|---|
| Population | 148 million |
| Category | Compulsory Consumerist State |
The Kingdom of The Iron Born is a very large, orderly nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 148 million Iron Born are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.
The tiny, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.4%.
The powerhouse Iron Born economy, worth 14.9 trillion Irons a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 100,975 Irons, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 513,057 per year while the poor average 10,996, a ratio of 46.7 to 1.
The government has cut its subsidies for all special interest groups, advertisers scramble to sponsor the broadcast of Leader's most personal functions, the nation's first space rocket -- sponsored by Pepsi and shaped like an enormous soda bottle -- is being developed, and no one believes anything until it has been strenuously tested and peer-reviewed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. The Iron Born's national animal is the THE GIANT SQUID, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
