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The Lucky Blue Dance Festivals of Happy Thoughts

“You're Never Fully Dressed without a Smile!!!”

Category: Corrupt Dictatorship
Civil Rights:
Average
Economy:
Frightening
Political Freedoms:
Unheard Of

Regional Influence: Superpower

Location: The Featured Region Followers

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Happy Thoughts

Population13.861 billion

CapitalCelebrations
LeaderFaithguide Wendy Regina the Lovely
FaithFollowers of the Regions Featured

Currencygold Kindness
AnimalHappy 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.

Top
5%
Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry: 3,235thLargest Black Market: 3,577thNudest: 5,679thMost Avoided: 5,799thMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 5,988thMost Valuable International Artwork: 6,016thMost Subsidized Industry: 6,278thMost Extensive Public Healthcare: 8,481stMost Eco-Friendly Governments: 8,774thMost Corrupt Governments: 9,459thMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 10,279thMost Stationary: 11,081stLargest Retail Industry: 11,567thHighest Economic Output: 13,317thMost Influential: 14,467thMost Advanced Public Education: 15,481stLargest Mining Sector: 15,693rdTop
10%
Largest Furniture Restoration Industry: 17,471stLargest Arms Manufacturing Sector: 17,596thHighest Poor Incomes: 19,214thMost Ignorant Citizens: 20,175thHighest Average Tax Rates: 20,324thMost Efficient Economies: 23,838thHighest Average Incomes: 25,031stLargest Manufacturing Sector: 26,500thLargest Welfare Programs: 26,586thMost Devout: 29,686th
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10%
Most Valuable International Artwork: 1st in the regionNudest: 1st in the regionMost Corrupt Governments: 1st in the regionMost Subsidized Industry: 1st in the regionMost Stationary: 1st in the regionMost Extensive Public Healthcare: 1st in the regionMost Influential: 1st in the regionLargest Retail Industry: 1st in the region

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : 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.

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