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The Blessed Outcome of Kothica

“Call me by any name, any way it's all the same”

Category: Psychotic Dictatorship
Civil Rights:
Unheard Of
Economy:
Very Strong
Political Freedoms:
Few

Regional Influence: Hegemony

Location: Entropy

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Kothica

Population16.095 billion

Currencysomething
Animalsomething else

The Blessed Outcome of Kothica is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 16.095 billion Kothicans 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 68.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Kothican economy, worth a remarkable 1,137 trillion somethings 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 a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, Information Technology, and 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 70,699 somethings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tetris has been banned for its graphic violent content, collisions between bicycles and carnival floats are on the rise, the government mails weekly updates on the new anti-junk mail laws to every citizen, and census workers are having a hard time figuring out who is actually living in Kothica after the ban on emigration was lifted. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kothica's national animal is the something else, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kothica is ranked 52,854th in the world and 1st in Entropy for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 5,291.41 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.

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5%
Most Armed: 11,452ndMost Valuable International Artwork: 12,796thTop
10%
Most Politically Apathetic Citizens: 15,668thLargest Black Market: 18,747thLargest Populations: 23,879thMost Influential: 24,572ndMost World Assembly Endorsements: 25,734thHighest Economic Output: 25,997thMost Authoritarian: 26,696thLargest Welfare Programs: 27,507th

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Kothica was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Valuable International Artwork and the Top 10% for Largest Black Market, Highest Economic Output, Most World Assembly Endorsements, and Most Influential.
  • : Following new legislation in Kothica, census workers are having a hard time figuring out who is actually living in Kothica after the ban on emigration was lifted.
  • : Following new legislation in Kothica, the government mails weekly updates on the new anti-junk mail laws to every citizen.
  • : Following new legislation in Kothica, collisions between bicycles and carnival floats are on the rise.
  • : Following new legislation in Kothica, Tetris has been banned for its graphic violent content.
  • : Kothica was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Authoritarian.
  • : Following new legislation in Kothica, hordes of faceless civil servants are running cities.
  • : Kothica was reclassified from "Authoritarian Democracy" to "Psychotic Dictatorship".
  • : Following new legislation in Kothica, citizens live in superstitious fear of the mysterious glowing clouds that float over Kothica.
  • : Following new legislation in Kothica, one tree's worth of paperwork accompanies each imported log of timber.

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