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The Loving Couple of -Ship-Fan |
“I ship it.”
Category: Iron Fist Consumerists | ||
Civil Rights: Few |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Rare |
Location: Codex Ylvus |
Regional Influence: Power |
The Loving Couple of -Ship-Fan is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Urahara with an iron fist, and remarkable for its parental licensing program, fear of technology, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.572 billion -Ship-Fanians 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 enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Soul Society. The average income tax rate is 81.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient -Ship-Fanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,025 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 155,991 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.
A government program is underway to revitalize -Ship-Fan's beaches, televangelists flaunt their expensive cars when they attend charity events, home education can sometimes be a load of bullocks, and vats of anabolic steroids are being dumped into the ocean to make -Ship-Fanian mussels the biggest in Codex Ylvus. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. -Ship-Fan's national animal is the dove, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Cards.
-Ship-Fan is ranked 4,495th in the world and 2nd in Codex Ylvus for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 8,689.53 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : -Ship-Fan was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Black Market, Highest Foreign Aid Spending, Most Advanced Public Education, and Most Primitive and the Top 10% for Highest Average Incomes.
- : -Ship-Fan was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Poor Incomes.
- : -Ship-Fan was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Gambling Industry.
- : Following new legislation in -Ship-Fan, vats of anabolic steroids are being dumped into the ocean to make -Ship-Fanian mussels the biggest in Codex Ylvus.
- : Following new legislation in -Ship-Fan, home education can sometimes be a load of bullocks.
- : Following new legislation in -Ship-Fan, televangelists flaunt their expensive cars when they attend charity events.
- : Following new legislation in -Ship-Fan, a government program is underway to revitalize -Ship-Fan's beaches.
- : Following new legislation in -Ship-Fan, visitors to the famed rainforests are instead taken to vast furniture factories.
- : Following new legislation in -Ship-Fan, almost all the visible space on TV screens is taken up by advertising.
- : Following new legislation in -Ship-Fan, genocide is seen as a topic best avoided in history lessons.