Category: Democratic Socialists | ||
Civil Rights: Good |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Good |
Regional Influence: Shoeshiner
Location: Refugia
Population | 8.543 billion |
Capital | Theed |
Leader | First Cheddar Monk Qui-Gon Jim |
Faith | Dice Rolling |
Currency | Lost Orb of Phanatacoria |
Animal | Summon Bigger Fish |
The Webcomic RolePlaying Game of Darths and Droids is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by First Cheddar Monk Qui-Gon Jim with an even hand, and renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, free-roaming dinosaurs, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, humorless, devout population of 8.543 billion Cheddar Monks are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.
It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Administration, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Theed. The income tax rate is 100%.
The frighteningly efficient Cheddar economy, worth a remarkable 2,455 trillion Lost Orbs of Phanatacoria a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, extremely specialized black market in Basket Weaving. 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 an amazing 287,417 Lost Orbs of Phanatacoria, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Primetime re-runs of The Black and White Minstrel Show are a critical hit, the tawdry celebrity gossip section has moved to the front page of most newspapers, undersea volcanoes receive strongly worded letters for violating environmental regulations, and the government keeps introducing new foreign species to combat the previous ones it has introduced. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Darths and Droids's national animal is the Summon Bigger Fish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Dice Rolling.
Darths and Droids is ranked 116,811th in the world and 141st in Refugia for Most Politically Free, scoring 58.29 on the Diebold Election Inking Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
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Darths and Droids, the government keeps introducing new foreign species to combat the previous ones it has introduced.
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Darths and Droids, undersea volcanoes receive strongly worded letters for violating environmental regulations.
- : Following new legislation in
Darths and Droids, the tawdry celebrity gossip section has moved to the front page of most newspapers.
- : Following new legislation in
Darths and Droids, primetime re-runs of The Black and White Minstrel Show are a critical hit.
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Darths and Droids, the standard government reply to any query is "there is no spoon".
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Darths and Droids, knitters are arrested for carrying needles in their bags.
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Darths and Droids, the government's foreign policy statements are less threatening than a World Assembly cease-and-desist letter.
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Darths and Droids, a full moon at night lets economists sleep tight.
- : Following new legislation in
Darths and Droids, this year's televised Budget Forecast has been cancelled because there was already one last year.
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Darths and Droids, organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region.