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The Free Land of TenthSense

“We don't make any sense at all!”

Category: Moralistic Democracy
Civil Rights:
Rare
Economy:
Frightening
Political Freedoms:
Some

Regional Influence: Truckler

Location: Yuno

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TenthSense

Population14.211 billion

Currencyrock
Animalmagical frog

The Free Land of TenthSense is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, pith helmet sales, and aversion to nipples. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 14.211 billion TenthSenseans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 76.9%.

The frighteningly efficient TenthSensean economy, worth a remarkable 1,863 trillion rocks 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 Furniture Restoration, Uranium Mining, and Retail. 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 131,151 rocks, with the richest citizens earning 9.3 times as much as the poorest.

Everyone apparently sends Leader hair-filled lockets, offers to die heroically, and poetic desires to co-parent a child, retirement homes are filled with foreign war criminals, Tom and Jerry cartoons have cat and mouse resolving their problems with reasoned discussion, and the streets are ravaged by murder and violence to prove political points. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. TenthSense's national animal is the magical frog, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

TenthSense is ranked 331,112th in the world and 60th in Yuno for Most Cultured, scoring 35 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.

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Largest Furniture Restoration Industry: 881stMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 1,434thMost Ignorant Citizens: 1,602ndMost Primitive: 2,528thMost Advanced Public Transport: 2,682ndTop
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Largest Black Market: 3,669thMost Avoided: 3,869thLargest Mining Sector: 4,628thMost Subsidized Industry: 5,587thMost Corrupt Governments: 7,043rdHighest Foreign Aid Spending: 7,500thMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 8,603rdLargest Retail Industry: 10,131stMost Eco-Friendly Governments: 12,632ndHighest Economic Output: 15,575thNudest: 16,738thTop
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Most Stationary: 19,722ndMost Extensive Public Healthcare: 21,748thHighest Wealthy Incomes: 21,808thHighest Average Tax Rates: 24,216thMost Influential: 28,229thMost Devout: 29,145thMost Efficient Economies: 30,682ndLargest Populations: 31,878th
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Most Advanced Public Transport: 1st in the regionLargest Mining Sector: 1st in the regionMost Avoided: 1st in the regionMost Subsidized Industry: 1st in the regionLargest Furniture Restoration Industry: 1st in the regionLargest Retail Industry: 1st in the regionMost Ignorant Citizens: 1st in the regionHighest Foreign Aid Spending: 1st in the regionLargest Black Market: 2nd in the regionMost Primitive: 2nd in the regionMost Corrupt Governments: 2nd in the regionMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 2nd in the regionMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 2nd in the regionHighest Average Tax Rates: 3rd in the regionTop
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Most Eco-Friendly Governments: 4th in the regionHighest Economic Output: 4th in the regionMost Efficient Economies: 5th in the regionMost Extensive Public Healthcare: 5th in the regionNudest: 5th in the regionRudest Citizens: 6th in the region

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : TenthSense was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Nudest.
  • : TenthSense was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Populations.
  • : TenthSense was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Economic Output.
  • : Following new legislation in TenthSense, the streets are ravaged by murder and violence to prove political points.
  • : TenthSense was reclassified from "Iron Fist Consumerists" to "Moralistic Democracy".
  • : Following new legislation in TenthSense, Tom and Jerry cartoons have cat and mouse resolving their problems with reasoned discussion.
  • : Following new legislation in TenthSense, retirement homes are filled with foreign war criminals.
  • : Following new legislation in TenthSense, everyone apparently sends Leader hair-filled lockets, offers to die heroically, and poetic desires to co-parent a child.
  • : TenthSense was reclassified from "Moralistic Democracy" to "Iron Fist Consumerists".
  • : Following new legislation in TenthSense, science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous.

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