Spotlight on:
The Free Republic of Blimba |
“By The Poor For The Rich 🤬”
Category: Father Knows Best State | ||
Civil Rights: Some |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Rare |
Location: Axixican Confederation |
Regional Influence: Enforcer |
The Free Republic of Blimba is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by President Sackett TuMe Tom with an iron fist, and notable for its public floggings, strictly enforced bedtime, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 9.846 billion Blimbans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.
The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of San Blimcisco. The average income tax rate is 69.1%.
The frighteningly efficient Blimban economy, worth a remarkable 1,065 trillion Holy Dollars a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 108,225 Holy Dollars, with the richest citizens earning 5.1 times as much as the poorest.
Meat-eating is frowned upon, students are known to arrive at school in their pyjamas, teddy bears and pajamas have replaced briefcases and suits in Blimba's offices, and children get arrested for floating paper boats on lakes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Blimba's national animal is the Sea Urchin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Hipposolesism.
Blimba is ranked 144,204th in the world and 5th in Axixican Confederation for Most Stationary, with 183.3357854428 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Blimba's influence in Axixican Confederation fell from "Eminence Grise" to "Enforcer".
- : Following new legislation in Blimba, children get arrested for floating paper boats on lakes.
- : Following new legislation in Blimba, teddy bears and pajamas have replaced briefcases and suits in Blimba's offices.
- : Following new legislation in Blimba, students are known to arrive at school in their pyjamas.
- : Following new legislation in Blimba, meat-eating is frowned upon.
- : Following new legislation in Blimba, several citizens have complained about scientists abducting their pets for experimentation.
- : Blimba was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Retail Industry.
- : Following new legislation in Blimba, mountain rescue missions can end with more people lost than found.
- : Following new legislation in Blimba, bilingual Blimbans are viewed with suspicion.
- : Following new legislation in Blimba, the newest shade developed by Blimba's dye industry has been dubbed 'Agent Orange'.