Your Nation's Fact of the Week

[Zhouran]

In Zhouran, medical specialists such as surgeons and dentists, engineers such as aerospace and nuclear engineers, scientists such as physicists and chemists, and military officers in the Zhouranese People's Army are known to have much higher salaries than financial dealers and legal professionals, although the average annual income in Zhouran is already very high in general and even those working in minimum wage jobs earn quite a lot of income since the country's minimum wage is the highest in the world. Plus, Zhouran has a highly-robust social safety net in the form of a highly-efficient merit-based social-security system ranked as best in Asia and one of the best in the world (which also includes the publicly-funded universal basic income system called the National Universal Income System), and a highly-robust high-tech socialist economy that cares for the welfare of the people. As a result, an individual's personal income is supplemented by additional income from social security and given that the country has one of the lowest tax rates in the world, the average Zhouranese has a very large amount of disposable income to spend on.

Also, it is common practice for medical specialists, engineers, scientists and military officers in Zhouran to be investors and shareholders in the country's various private companies and startup unicorns that participate in various fields of industries including high-technology, private security/military, engineering, pharmaceutical, transportation, retail, robotics, biotechnology, real-estate, finance, telecommunications, entertainment, and cryptocurrency. For foreigners, this is considered quite ironic given that the People's Republic of Zhouran is technically a socialist country, however because of Laixinjue School of Economics and People-Oriented Market Economy, the proletariats of the nation are given freedom to participate in free trade and the free market for gaining capital while the state supervises & regulates the private sector and puts a leash on the national bourgeoise through legal means. Meanwhile, under Zhouranese Socialism, workplace democracy is mandatory and the proletarians have strong representation and active participation within private companies, plus labor unions & labor-union federations (Zhouran having the highest labor unionization in the world and largest number of labor unions) have political representation in local politics and dominate the local politics of towns and cities across the country, not to mention that thanks to Zhouran's judicial system, labor unions and labor-union federations provide legal support for workers against the national bourgeoise and every single court case ends with the proletarians winning over the bourgeoise. Acrross the world, far-leftists that support Zhouran would describe the country as a place where workers can get rich and prosperous collectively and band together against exploitation from the bourgeoise, while radical-liberals and ultra-leftists on the other hand would describe Zhouran as a "social-imperialist state-capitalist red-fascist state".

[Laka Strolistandiler]

In Laka Strolistandiler, first wave feminism fought not to free women from oppressive modesty laws, but instead to enforce such laws on men. This in turn lead to “unisexization” of fashion, which is still a thing. For example, a standard parade uniform of most branches of the armed forces include skirts. Male skirts are actually a big thing in Laka, as they are often viewed as both practical and beautiful.

[Sherechia]

Sherechian public transport is well known for their punctuality but this is often at the cost of safety.

Bus drivers are well known to drive like maniacs, the situation is not helped by the lack of speed limits and traffic lights. Most cities actually banned the use of double-decker buses in their public transport system because Sherechian drivers constantly tip them over, instead preferring to use more stable articulated buses.

In other countries trams follow a speed limit, especially when merging with traffic, the speed limit is as low as 50km/h. Sherechian trams can go as fast as the trams themselves can go (80-100 km/h). For the riders, this is actually the safest way to get around (apart from the metro) as trams can weigh in up to 40 tons meaning they plough through every other vehicle.

The metros are safe though, the only problem is that only the capital has a metro system.

[Aikoland]

There are only 40 McDonald's restaurants in Aikoland.

[Voxija]

In the fifties, Voxijans were quite socially conservative. However, being an intelligent nation, Voxija backed up Catholic notions with science. Voxijans made statements like "war and homosexuality are both commmitted by the higher orders of mammal" and "birth control blocks hormones and will turn women into men". Be glad fad diets didn't reach Voxija in the fifties.

[Nation States Cayo]

Everybody between 18 and 28 should go to the military for a year. For women it is optional. You get about $2980 or so a month while you are in the military, and $4553 when you are a real member. If you don’t want the year in the military, you need to pay about $9986. Once you’ve been there, you are part of the reserve military until you’re 45 years old. Nation States Cayo has a standing army of 198,721 personnel and a reserve of 4,496,578 personnel.

[Zhouran]

As of 2020, Zhouran, a large country with a total population of around 285,480,000 people, has a home ownership rate of 94.7%, the second highest in the world. The reason for this: Zhouranese Virtues, Zhouranese Socialism, and Zhouranese Cityscape/Townscape Model. In Zhouranese culture, housing is seen as a human right and thus every individual has the right to housing. As a result, renting and evicting are both illegal and anyone who tries to be a landlord is sent to prison for deprivation & violation of human rights and human exploitation. Every house and residential building in self-sufficient urban & suburban neighborhoods are public housing with each neighborhood being self-contained and having high-level of communal self-sufficiency. Public residential developments in the country range from single-family detached homes to executive condominiums.

Rows of suburban houses at a self-sufficient suburban neighborhood in the southwestern outskirts of Ouyang

Thanks to public housing and a very-high home ownership rate, the current rate of homelessness in Zhouran is around 0.1 homeless individuals per 10,000 inhabitants, with 62% being young people under the age of 21 who have left home, are unable to safely live with a family relative, and have no other safe alternative living arrangement. As a result, homelessness is almost non-existent in Zhouran. The country has been lauded as being the only nation where every town and city are slum-free, although this shouldn't be a massive surprise given that the rate of poverty in Zhouran is only around 0.17% since the country is a highly-developed wealthy nation with very-high standards of living, a highly-efficient merit-based social-security system ranked as best in Asia and one of the best in the world (which also includes the publicly-funded universal basic income system called the National Universal Income System), and a highly-robust high-tech socialist economy that cares for the welfare of the people.

A diverse range of apartment complexes located by a beachfront in the east of Kuizhou

[Enway]

We have successfully did the transition from one currency to another. Also, our civil rights is at all time high. The other fact is we've once again overhauled the optic connections to advance the nation for getting advanced more scientifically and technologically. The law for the fair discussion regarding politics so that both sides can be analyzed in public universities has been mandating successfully. The construction of an electric train based tunnel for carrying out trades from ports has been started. Also, the nation has implemented minimum wage law regarding improvements in public education standards.

[The American Realm]

The United States technically utilizes two flags.

First a standard stars and stripes of 55 stars, used in most official uses.

And the one currently on display, the revolutionary flag, which was adopted as a concurrent flag of the state after the end of the Second American Civil War, which saw left wing and democrat majority forces crush reactionary allied forces, bringing about democratic socialism into the forefront of the countries politics (Albeit, imperfect.)

[Destyntine]

Infantrymen utilize lightweight jetpacks that are integrated with stabilizers. In total, these jetpacks way about 3.5kg including fuel. The stabilizers are activated automatically through a calculated AI designed to keep a soldier 5 meters off the ground by default unless told otherwise. These jetpacks allow for a soldier to be balanced in any direction while in mid-air, even upside down. Voice commands can be used to direct the features of the jetpack. The helmet wiring allows for the jetpack's AI feature to be plugged into the back of a soldier's helmet with ease. Codewords can be programmed for a soldier's ease of usage. These jetpacks are even more efficient on planets with less gravity, as the fuel can be conserved.

[Kyldellian Halon]

In kyldellian countries people have a right not to made eye contact to strangers.

[Guatemalan Corsica]

In Guatemalan Corsica when you buy a government funded house you will be able to own it for 1 year then you will have to pay, like a trial.

[Britannic New England]

Hamiltonism is the belief that the United States does not need a direct-democracy type system, that too much Democracy is a bad thing, and that it can lead to the corruption of the government and the people. Instead, it champions that it took a "Great Man" (like Hamilton) to actually run the country, run the government, and become the 'Father of the People.

[Droiden]

The current Forstorj (or Premier), Felix Juul, has recently commissioned several coffee machines in his office. He also recently dissolved the Popular Assembly.

[Caliland]

there is an 11-year old child running for president in the current election

[Frokolia]

Frokolian territory takes up more than half of South America

[Mechanikolia]

Mayonaise is illegal, eating it is an act of treason.

[Frokolia]

Mayonaise is illegal, eating it is an act of treason.

laughs in bologna sammich

[Greater Victora]

The Victoran Empire claims that it the "rightful owner" of the Koh-i-Noor since Great Britain, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan all "ceased to exist" after the Unification of Terra with the united government of Terra (i.e. the Victorans) inheriting all their possessions.

[Wochaystein]

The head of Wochaystein is an emperor, and he came from an aristocratic background, no less. But his sovereign is the Monarch Diarcesian.

[Zhouran]

With Zhouran being the world's leading producer of commercial nuclear power and having the largest number of nuclear power plants and commercial nuclear reactors out of any nation, pressurized water reactors are the common standard reactor types used in commercial power plants and even maritime nuclear-powered vessels such as aircraft carriers, submarines and even icebreakers. However, unlike PWRs of other nations, Zhouranese PWRs are built differently and have unique distinguishing revolutionary features not found on foreign PWR designs due to much more stringent & rigorous high-standards, thus resulting in Zhouranese PWRs being not only more-powerful but also much more energy efficient and having very-high levels of safety unmatched by any other PWR designs (thereby contributing to the country's highly-impressive nuclear safety record).

Workers from the National Nuclear Mechanical Engineering Service inspecting a newly-assembled Type 911 WCPR prior to be fitted onboard a ZPA Navy nuclear-powered icebreaker, late 1998

While early generation Zhouranese PWRs such as the Type 600 Pressurized Water Reactor series from the mid-1960s were more-conventional in design but featuring enhanced qualities not found on foreign PWR designs, successive generations of Zhouranese PWRs such as the Type 900 Water-Cooled Pressurized Reactor series of the late-1960s to mid-1970s and the Type 3000 High-Powered Water-Cooled Water-Moderated Pressurized Energy Reactor of the early-to-late 1980s utilize more-advanced radical characteristics for significantly-increased performance.

Cross section of the reactor active zone of early generations of Zhouranese PWRs


Cross section of the reactor active zone of successive generations of Zhouranese PWRs showcasing the hexahedral fuel assemblies

[Republica Federal de Catalunya]

April 23rd. Is lovers day in my country. Saint George is my my country's patron and the legend is that him slayed the dragon and dragon's blood turned into roses that he gave to the princess.
Because the book day was moved to it's day for merchandising reasons as Shakespeare died in April 23rd.

So it has become a tradition gifting books and roses to your beloved ones.

Due to media also Saint Valentine exists, but is considered by many, an imported festivity as Halloween.

[Africanish Union]

We are currently planning to flood the Sahara by letting the Atlantic ocean in.
There will be large filters to filter the water of salt.

We believe that this project will allow us to make Sahara a hospitable climate and possibly build large cities in it.

[Bantarahura]

As fire is considered sacred in Bantarahura, arson carries the maximum penalty of death, although it is not often committed.

[Republica Federal de Catalunya]

The most followed national sports competition is the Catalan Premier Division or Divisió d'Honor or Lliga Banc Sabadell for it's current main sponsor. It's organized by the Federació Catalana de Futbol.

Only FC Barcelona and CE Barcelona have played all seasons since 1914 the Divisió Honor. Never having been relegated to a minor division.

18 Football teams compete from Catalunya and Andorra compete in the League, than runs from August-September to May-Jun. Being 34 matches.
The winner classifies to play UEFA's Champions League. And play the Super Copa against the Cup winner or the Cup runner up If the League Winner wins also the Copa Catalunya (Cup).
While the runner of goes to Champions League play-off. Playing either Champions League or UEFA League.
The Cup winner qualifies for Europa League.
3rd-4th qualify for Europa league 3rd qualifying round.
4th to 7th play a playoff the winner qualifies for to play Europa League 2nd Qualifying round.
16th play playoff to avoid relegation to 1st Division (1a Divisió) or Lliga Endavant for it's main Sponsor.
17th and 18th are automatically relegated to Primera Divisió.

Primera Divisió winner and runner qualify promotion to Premier division.
While 3rd to 5th play promotion play-off together with Premier Division 16th.