Escapecraft

"This idea is brilliant, and Pototo can't afford to pass it up," claims Freddy de Vries, your Minister of Safety. "These loudspeakers can assure the public that the government is always here to help them. The potential here, to immediately warn citizens of an emergency such as an earthquake or a stampede of potatos or something, simply must be taken into account! This could save lives! And I suppose, when there isn't anything the citizens need to be told, you could always use them to broadcast patriotic messages like 'Eat more pomme de terre!' and inform the good people which party to join and vote for with newsbriefs and such. It'll be worth it to strengthen the populace's devotion to our glorious nation!"

LS13 wrote:

"This idea is brilliant, and Pototo can't afford to pass it up," claims Freddy de Vries, your Minister of Safety. "These loudspeakers can assure the public that the government is always here to help them. The potential here, to immediately warn citizens of an emergency such as an earthquake or a stampede of potatos or something, simply must be taken into account! This could save lives! And I suppose, when there isn't anything the citizens need to be told, you could always use them to broadcast patriotic messages like 'Eat more pomme de terre!' and inform the good people which party to join and vote for with newsbriefs and such. It'll be worth it to strengthen the populace's devotion to our glorious nation!"

Win.

LS13 wrote:

LS13 wrote:

"This idea is brilliant, and Pototo can't afford to pass it up," claims Freddy de Vries, your Minister of Safety. "These loudspeakers can assure the public that the government is always here to help them. The potential here, to immediately warn citizens of an emergency such as an earthquake or a stampede of potatos or something, simply must be taken into account! This could save lives! And I suppose, when there isn't anything the citizens need to be told, you could always use them to broadcast patriotic messages like 'Eat more pomme de terre!' and inform the good people which party to join and vote for with newsbriefs and such. It'll be worth it to strengthen the populace's devotion to our glorious nation!"

Win.

The BEPU of BEPU is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by Aenir with an iron fist, and renowned for its complete lack of public education. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.812 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of bEPU. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 33%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, followed by Information Technology and Uranium Mining.

Theoretical science is only theoretical, society and government have been organized according to a feudal hierarchy, new religious sects are squashed immediately by the government, and military service is compulsory. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. BEPU's national animal is the Cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is bEPU, and its currency is the Pig.

Following new legislation in BEPU, nuclear warheads are frequently launched into space as a warning to invading meteoroids.

Aenir_bEPU wrote:

Following new legislation in BEPU, nuclear warheads are frequently launched into space as a warning to invading meteoroids.

Sti_Jo_Lew wrote:Hell yeah!

Wish I could get more than 2 issues a day though...