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The Holy Ever Loving Blue Eyes of Clobberin Time

“It's clobberin' time!!!”

Category: Psychotic Dictatorship
Civil Rights:
Rare
Economy:
Thriving
Political Freedoms:
Rare

Regional Influence: Dealmaker

Location: Sourberry Fields

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Clobberin Time

Population6.654 billion

CapitalBaxter
LeaderBen Grimm the Ever Lovin Blue Eyed Thing
FaithCosmic Ray Transformation

CurrencyKnuckle
AnimalThing

The Holy Ever Loving Blue Eyes of Clobberin Time is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Ben Grimm the Ever Lovin Blue Eyed Thing with an iron fist, and remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, frequent executions, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 6.654 billion Grimms are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Baxter. The average income tax rate is 48.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Grimm economy, worth 380 trillion Knuckles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Uranium Mining, Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Pizza Delivery. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 57,179 Knuckles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Pregnant women get a lot of evil glares from fellow passengers when leaving the country, frat-house partying has become the national pastime, lines of trenches demarcate the nation's borders, and organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Clobberin Time's national animal is the Thing, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Cosmic Ray Transformation.

Clobberin Time is ranked 8,295th in the world and 3rd in Sourberry Fields for Most Secular, with 96.82 Atheism Rate.

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5%
Most Valuable International Artwork: 4,205thMost Avoided: 5,861stMost Ignorant Citizens: 7,481stMost Secular: 8,295thLargest Mining Sector: 13,631stMost Corrupt Governments: 14,951stTop
10%
Largest Black Market: 18,497thLargest Welfare Programs: 23,113thMost Authoritarian: 24,386th

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Following new legislation in Clobberin Time, organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region.
  • : Following new legislation in Clobberin Time, lines of trenches demarcate the nation's borders.
  • : Following new legislation in Clobberin Time, frat-house partying has become the national pastime.
  • : Following new legislation in Clobberin Time, pregnant women get a lot of evil glares from fellow passengers when leaving the country.
  • : Following new legislation in Clobberin Time, out-of-work soldiers and bureaucrats can often be found camped out in front of manservant academies.
  • : Following new legislation in Clobberin Time, owning a fishing rod can cause you to be subject to military questioning.
  • : Following new legislation in Clobberin Time, meetings involving club finances are frequently broken up by men in black suits.
  • : Clobberin Time was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Conservative.
  • : Following new legislation in Clobberin Time, it is illegal to have the wrong clock time showing on your microwave oven.
  • : Following new legislation in Clobberin Time, end-of-year production reports state that the revolution is really going with a bang.

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