Category: Authoritarian Democracy | ||
Civil Rights: Few |
Economy: Good |
Political Freedoms: Some |
Regional Influence: Sprat
Location: Suspicious
Population | 346 million |
Currency | Acorn |
Animal | Wild Boar |
The United Socialist States of Debate Pervert XXII is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its punitive income tax rates, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 346 million Debate Pervert XXIIians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.
The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 68.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The Debate Pervert XXIIian economy, worth 15.7 trillion Acorns a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is dominated by the Woodchip Exports industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, and Tourism. Average income is 45,452 Acorns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Commuters are denied boarding for attempting to bring packed lunches onto trains, the tragedy of the commons is being tested nationwide but everyone says it's somebody else's problem, the armed forces are locked in an expensive and bloody war abroad to stamp out possible terrorists, and the men in trenchcoats hanging around playgrounds are actually police officers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Debate Pervert XXII's national animal is the Wild Boar, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Debate Pervert XXII is ranked 138,692nd in the world and 1,259th in Suspicious for Most Extreme, scoring 19.83 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Debate Pervert XXII, the men in trenchcoats hanging around playgrounds are actually police officers.
- : Following new legislation in Debate Pervert XXII, the armed forces are locked in an expensive and bloody war abroad to stamp out possible terrorists.
- : Following new legislation in Debate Pervert XXII, the tragedy of the commons is being tested nationwide but everyone says it's somebody else's problem.
- : Following new legislation in Debate Pervert XXII, commuters are denied boarding for attempting to bring packed lunches onto trains.
- : Following new legislation in Debate Pervert XXII, there's no escape from the rule of law... or police brutality.
- : Debate Pervert XXII was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Workforce Participation Rate.
- : Following new legislation in Debate Pervert XXII, farmers have taken to hunting billionaires who encroach on their land.
- : Following new legislation in Debate Pervert XXII, government spending has hit an all-time low.
- : Following new legislation in Debate Pervert XXII, all industry is owned and run by the government.
- : Debate Pervert XXII was reclassified from "Moralistic Democracy" to "Authoritarian Democracy".