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The City on a hill of San Marlindo

“Stand your ass up!”

Category: Father Knows Best State
Civil Rights:
Below Average
Economy:
Frightening
Political Freedoms:
Few

Regional Influence: Auxiliary

Location: desert

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San Marlindo

Population18.249 billion

LeaderHer Excellency Comrade President
Faitha major religion

CurrencySan Marlindo Lira
AnimalGray Reticulan

The City on a hill of San Marlindo is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Her Excellency Comrade President with an iron fist, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, complete lack of prisons, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 18.249 billion San Marlindans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Environment, Industry, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 95.4%.

The frighteningly efficient San Marlindan economy, worth a remarkable 3,011 trillion San Marlindo Lire a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, extremely specialized black market in 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 an impressive 165,002 San Marlindo Lire, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Space shuttles are lying silent on the runway till the Space Agency can work out how to fit a creche and a meditation room into their next spacecraft, the nation's exceedingly polite children have often been referred to as "robots" by international media, the government regularly publishes lengthy reports on its own excessive recordkeeping, and dinosaur breeders have a yabba-dabba-doo gay old time in San Marlindo. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. San Marlindo's national animal is the Gray Reticulan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is a major religion.

San Marlindo is ranked 94,159th in the world and 6th in desert for Most Stationary, with 485.10043953552 days.

Top
1%
Most Advanced Public Transport: 90thMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 385thMost Eco-Friendly Governments: 441stMost Subsidized Industry: 651stMost Ignorant Citizens: 993rdLargest Black Market: 1,198thLargest Welfare Programs: 1,330thMost Corrupt Governments: 1,503rdBest Weather: 2,148thMost Devout: 2,178thMost Extensive Public Healthcare: 2,231stTop
5%
Most Advanced Defense Forces: 3,049thMost Beautiful Environments: 3,517thHighest Average Tax Rates: 5,616thMost Advanced Public Education: 5,654thHighest Economic Output: 7,225thLargest Governments: 9,190thMost Primitive: 10,605thLongest Average Lifespans: 12,753rdTop
10%
Highest Poor Incomes: 17,217thHighest Average Incomes: 17,360thMost Efficient Economies: 18,412thLargest Populations: 19,166thMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 20,332ndMost Popular Tourist Destinations: 23,219th
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10%
Most Devout: 1st in the regionMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 1st in the regionMost Extensive Public Healthcare: 1st in the regionMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 1st in the regionMost Advanced Public Transport: 1st in the regionMost Authoritarian: 1st in the regionLargest Welfare Programs: 1st in the regionMost Corrupt Governments: 1st in the regionMost Advanced Defense Forces: 1st in the regionMost Ignorant Citizens: 1st in the regionMost Subsidized Industry: 1st in the regionMost Primitive: 1st in the regionLargest Black Market: 1st in the region

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : San Marlindo was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Advanced Defense Forces.
  • : San Marlindo's influence in Desert rose from "Ambassador" to "Auxiliary".
  • : San Marlindo's influence in Desert rose from "Diplomat" to "Ambassador".
  • : San Marlindo's influence in Desert rose from "Envoy" to "Diplomat".
  • : San Marlindo was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Survivors.
  • : San Marlindo was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Efficient Economies.
  • : San Marlindo's influence in Desert rose from "Duckspeaker" to "Envoy".
  • : San Marlindo was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most World Assembly Endorsements.
  • : San Marlindo was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Advanced Defense Forces.
  • : San Marlindo's influence in Desert rose from "Handshaker" to "Duckspeaker".

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