Category: Authoritarian Democracy | ||
Civil Rights: Unheard Of |
Economy: Reasonable |
Political Freedoms: Some |
Regional Influence: Apprentice
Location: Dimmersun
Population | 2.577 billion |
Currency | Hellenic coin |
Animal | Pegasus |
The Queendom of Popotina is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 2.577 billion Popotinans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.
The medium-sized, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 54.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The large but inefficient Popotinan economy, worth 147 trillion Hellenic coins 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 slick, highly efficient black market in Beef-Based Agriculture, Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. 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 57,171 Hellenic coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Foreign policy is mostly just to smile and hope for the best, recapturing giraffes is proving to be a tall order, former bars are desperately trying to re-brand themselves as cafés, and foreign leaders are advising that Leader's letters must have gotten lost in the mail. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Popotina's national animal is the Pegasus, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
Popotina is ranked 190,316th in the world and 123rd in Dimmersun for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring zero on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Popotina, foreign leaders are advising that Leader's letters must have gotten lost in the mail.
- : Following new legislation in Popotina, former bars are desperately trying to re-brand themselves as cafés.
- : Following new legislation in Popotina, recapturing giraffes is proving to be a tall order.
- : Following new legislation in Popotina, foreign policy is mostly just to smile and hope for the best.
- : Following new legislation in Popotina, police detectives carry phrenology calipers as part of their standard kit.
- : Following new legislation in Popotina, slow dancing is made trickier when Auntie Edna insists on standing between the couple's arms.
- : Following new legislation in Popotina, convicted criminals are given free limo rides to jail.
- : Following new legislation in Popotina, children seem to be getting better at lying these days.
- : Following new legislation in Popotina, voting for pro-Bigtopian candidates is voluntary.
- : Following new legislation in Popotina, soldiers stream their classified military operations live for millions of fans.