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The 🥔🥔🥔 of Potato

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Category: Corrupt Dictatorship
Civil Rights:
Some
Economy:
Strong
Political Freedoms:
Outlawed

Regional Influence: Hegemony

Location: Potato

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Potato

Population17.007 billion

Currencyguilder
Animalman

The 🥔🥔🥔 of Potato is a gargantuan, orderly nation, renowned for its frequent executions, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 17.007 billion Potatoes 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, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Healthcare, and Education also on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 70.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong a Potato economy, worth a remarkable 1,271 trillion guilders 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 black market in Arms Manufacturing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Cheese Exports, 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 74,734 guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children gain their first sex education from reading the dictionary, going on a diet invalidates your passport, diners regard burgers made from mechanically reclaimed cow protein as "proper meat", and garden flower shows rarely smell of roses. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Potato's national animal is the man, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Potato is ranked 40,095th in the world and 1st in Potato for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 70.79 Effective Tax Rate.

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5%
Most Valuable International Artwork: 7,817thMost Authoritarian: 14,601stLargest Black Market: 16,234thMost Advanced Public Transport: 17,314thTop
10%
Highest Foreign Aid Spending: 19,941stMost Income Equality: 20,817thLargest Populations: 24,952ndMost Advanced Defense Forces: 26,809thHighest Economic Output: 27,004th

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Potato was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Extensive Public Healthcare.
  • : Potato was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Black Market.
  • : Potato changed its national nation type to "🥔🥔🥔".
  • : Potato proposed constructing embassies between Potato and True Waskaria.
  • : Potato proposed constructing embassies between Potato and The Embassy.
  • : Potato granted posting privileges on the Potato Regional Message Board to nations in embassy regions.
  • : Potato was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Black Market.
  • : Potato's influence in Potato fell from "Hermit" to "Hegemony".
  • : Potato's influence in Potato rose from "Zero" to "Hermit".
  • : Potato lodged a message on the Potato Regional Message Board.

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