Category: Corporate Police State | ||
Civil Rights: Unheard Of |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Unheard Of |
Regional Influence: Sprat
Location: The East Pacific
Population | 21.268 billion |
Capital | Goddess' Retreat |
Leader | the High Priestess |
Faith | Goddess Worship |
Currency | prayer bead |
Animal | cat |
The Holy Matriarchy of The Blessed and Holy Land is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by the High Priestess with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, lack of airports, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 21.268 billion Holylanders are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.
The minute, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Goddess' Retreat. Income tax is unheard of.
The frighteningly efficient Holylandian economy, worth a remarkable 6,535 trillion prayer beads a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is an amazing 307,308 prayer beads, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,878,301 per year while the poor average 2,765, a ratio of 1,040 to 1.
Paralegals spend all day Hewlett-Packing attorneys' law briefs, police and sick people alike fear the Day of Rest as all institutions are forced to shut down, teddy bear James Dean (aka "the Rebel Without the Claws") helps convince kids that candy cigarettes are cool, and the end of autumn is celebrated with a bonfire of designer bags. Crime is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. The Blessed and Holy Land's national animal is the cat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Goddess Worship.
The Blessed and Holy Land is ranked 41,999th in the world and 417th in The East Pacific for Most Extreme, scoring 33.92 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : The Blessed and Holy Land was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Zombies and the Top 5% for Most Zombified.
- : The Blessed and Holy Land was ravaged by a Zombie Thing Horde from The Former Colonial Empire of Anglost, infecting 84 million survivors and converting to a zombie exporter! Oh no!
- : The Blessed and Holy Land was cleansed by a Level 5 Invasion Tactical Zombie Elimination Squad from The Vampiric Queendom of Chr Carlavikay, killing 2 million zombies and restoring to an undecided nation!
- : The Blessed and Holy Land was ravaged by a Zombie Thing Horde from The Former Colonial Empire of Anglost, infecting 91 million survivors and converting to a zombie exporter! Oh no!
- : The Blessed and Holy Land was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Zombies and the Top 10% for Most Survivors, Most Dead, and Most Zombified.
- : The Blessed and Holy Land was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Black Market.
- : The Blessed and Holy Land was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Black Market.
- : The Blessed and Holy Land was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Valuable International Artwork.
- : The Blessed and Holy Land was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Highest Average Incomes.
- : The Blessed and Holy Land was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Highest Average Incomes.