Category: Corrupt Dictatorship | ||
Civil Rights: Average |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Unheard Of |
Regional Influence: Superpower
Location: The Featured Region Followers
Population | 13.861 billion |
Capital | Celebrations |
Leader | Faithguide Wendy Regina the Lovely |
Faith | Followers of the Regions Featured |
Currency | gold Kindness |
Animal | Happy Ghost Kitty |
The Lucky Blue Dance Festivals of Happy Thoughts is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Faithguide Wendy Regina the Lovely with an iron fist, and notable for its aversion to nipples, pith helmet sales, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 13.861 billion Happy Thinkers are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.
The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Administration, although Industry, Law & Order, and Education are also considered important, while International Aid and Public Transport receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Celebrations. The average income tax rate is 79.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Happy economy, worth a remarkable 2,071 trillion gold Kindnesses a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, Retail, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 149,458 gold Kindnesses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.
The urinary fragrance of seedier establishments is thankfully hidden by the smell of stale smoke, the people consider response to rudeness to be an acceptable casus belli, academics have a bone to pick with free market entrepreneurs, and baize on snooker tables has been stripped for "appearing too hedonistic". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Happy Thoughts's national animal is the Happy Ghost Kitty, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Followers of the Regions Featured.
Happy Thoughts is ranked 313,056th in the world and 9th in The Featured Region Followers for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring -11.17 on the Hickory Productivity Index.
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- : Happy Thoughts was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Mining Sector.
- : Happy Thoughts was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Mining Sector.
- : Happy Thoughts was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Mining Sector.
- : Happy Thoughts was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Mining Sector.
- : Happy Thoughts was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Advanced Public Education.
- : Happy Thoughts was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Mining Sector.
- : Happy Thoughts was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry.
- : Happy Thoughts was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Advanced Public Education.
- : Happy Thoughts was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry.
- : Happy Thoughts was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry.