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The Whole Love of Art of Almost |
“Open up my heart and fall”
| Category: Psychotic Dictatorship | ||
| Civil Rights: Some |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Few |
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Location: Stereo Hearts |
Regional Influence: Squire |
The Whole Love of Art of Almost is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Jeff Tweedy with an iron fist, and remarkable for its frequent executions, ritual sacrifices, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.358 billion Art of Almostians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."
The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of my wasteland. The average income tax rate is 81.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Art of Almostian economy, worth a remarkable 1,116 trillion arts a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 133,554 arts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Female newsreaders distract the nation by breastfeeding during broadcast, primary candidates are replaced if they fail to compliment Jeff Tweedy's hair, traffic cops are puzzled to see that nobody exceeds the speed limits, and biker gangs and fashionistas are converting to Violetism en masse. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Art of Almost's national animal is the almost, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is the whole love.
Art of Almost is ranked 168,388th in the world and 222nd in Stereo Hearts for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 161.51 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
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Art of Almost was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Patriotic and Largest Black Market and the Top 10% for Highest Economic Output and Most Advanced Public Education.
- : Art of Almost was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Poor Incomes.
- : Following new legislation in Art of Almost, biker gangs and fashionistas are converting to Violetism en masse.
- : Following new legislation in Art of Almost, traffic cops are puzzled to see that nobody exceeds the speed limits.
- : Following new legislation in Art of Almost, primary candidates are replaced if they fail to compliment Jeff Tweedy's hair.
- : Art of Almost was reclassified from "Authoritarian Democracy" to "Psychotic Dictatorship".
- : Following new legislation in Art of Almost, female newsreaders distract the nation by breastfeeding during broadcast.
- : Following new legislation in Art of Almost, politicians can't accept birthday presents from their own children.
- : Following new legislation in Art of Almost, inter-species marriages are ignored by the government.
- : Following new legislation in Art of Almost, the nation's faithful often say there is a higher power watching over them.
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