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The Republic of SmitopBot43

“Pride and Industry”

Category: Iron Fist Consumerists
Civil Rights:
Unheard Of
Economy:
Frightening
Political Freedoms:
Rare

Regional Influence: Apprentice

Location: SmitopBots

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SmitopBot43

Population11.856 billion

Currencypeso
Animalemu

The Republic of SmitopBot43 is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its lack of airports, ritual sacrifices, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 11.856 billion SmitopBot43ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Administration, although Industry, Defense, and Law & Order are also considered important, while Welfare isn't funded at all. The average income tax rate is 85.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient SmitopBot43ian economy, worth a remarkable 2,957 trillion pesos 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Retail, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. 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 amazing 249,458 pesos, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles, the government is purchasing vast amounts of palm oil for plastics production, there's some really clean windows in SmitopBot43ian houses, and the nation's navy has been named the scourge of the seven thousand seas. Crime is moderate, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. SmitopBot43's national animal is the emu, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

SmitopBot43 is ranked 345,820th in the world and 25th in SmitopBots for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -26.17 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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Largest Retail Industry: 55thMost Ignorant Citizens: 410thMost Corrupt Governments: 558thMost Avoided: 579thLargest Mining Sector: 797thMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 912thMost Devout: 973rdFattest Citizens: 1,100thLargest Timber Woodchipping Industry: 1,317thHighest Unexpected Death Rate: 1,497thLargest Black Market: 1,716thMost Subsidized Industry: 2,295thTop
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Highest Average Incomes: 5,582ndRudest Citizens: 6,689thHighest Poor Incomes: 6,946thMost Advanced Public Transport: 7,142ndHighest Economic Output: 8,324thMost Efficient Economies: 8,798thMost Extensive Public Healthcare: 9,880thMost Eco-Friendly Governments: 10,698thLargest Governments: 11,947thMost Patriotic: 12,932ndMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 14,256thMost Influential: 14,700thMost Advanced Defense Forces: 15,071stHighest Average Tax Rates: 15,179thMost Stationary: 15,496thHighest Wealthy Incomes: 16,354thNudest: 17,001stTop
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Most Conservative: 18,055thMost Advanced Public Education: 19,127thMost Authoritarian: 25,771st
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Largest Retail Industry: 1st in the regionTop
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Most Conservative: 3rd in the regionTop
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Nicest Citizens: 6th in the regionLeast Corrupt Governments: 6th in the regionMost Compassionate Citizens: 7th in the region

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Following new legislation in SmitopBot43, the nation's navy has been named the scourge of the seven thousand seas.
  • : Following new legislation in SmitopBot43, there's some really clean windows in SmitopBot43ian houses.
  • : Following new legislation in SmitopBot43, the government is purchasing vast amounts of palm oil for plastics production.
  • : SmitopBot43 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Conservative.
  • : Following new legislation in SmitopBot43, kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles.
  • : Following new legislation in SmitopBot43, nothing is more offensive than being inoffensive.
  • : Following new legislation in SmitopBot43, the hardest thing for a mining operation to dig through is government red tape.
  • : Following new legislation in SmitopBot43, citizens who don't recite the Pledge of SmitopBot43 at least three times a day are placed on a terrorist watch-list.
  • : Following new legislation in SmitopBot43, it is a silent spring in SmitopBot43.
  • : Following new legislation in SmitopBot43, government programs are less "written" and more "plagiarised".

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