Spotlight on:
The Eternal Misfortune of Copercia |
“Stop Reading My Motto!”
Category: Tyranny by Majority | ||
Civil Rights: Outlawed |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Corrupted |
Location: Pencil Sharpeners Puppet Storage |
Regional Influence: Handshaker |
The Eternal Misfortune of Copercia is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its daily referendums, restrictive gun laws, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless, devout population of 21.759 billion Copercians enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.
It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, outspoken government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Environment, Law & Order, and Spirituality. The income tax rate is 100%.
The frighteningly efficient Copercian economy, worth a remarkable 4,713 trillion Coperciums a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Basket Weaving industry. Average income is an amazing 216,621 Coperciums, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
The seats at the back of the parliament are reserved for indigenous ministers, foreign musicians that Leader dislikes are turned away at the border, warning signs caution Copercians where they may fall off 'the edge of the world', and goldfish bowls are three metres in diameter. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Copercia's national animal is the Octopus, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is a major religion.
Copercia is ranked 78th in the world and 3rd in Pencil Sharpeners Puppet Storage for Most Pacifist, with 369.33 cheeks turned per day.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Copercia, goldfish bowls are three metres in diameter.
- : Following new legislation in Copercia, warning signs caution Copercians where they may fall off 'the edge of the world'.
- : Following new legislation in Copercia, foreign musicians that Leader dislikes are turned away at the border.
- : Following new legislation in Copercia, the seats at the back of the parliament are reserved for indigenous ministers.
- : Following new legislation in Copercia, government bureaucrats shut down teenage yard-raking businesses for being counter-revolutionary.
- : Following new legislation in Copercia, the government considers it a sacred duty to video bikini-clad beach swimmers.
- : Following new legislation in Copercia, businesses are scrambling to adapt to the government's mandate that 'time and measurement no longer exist'.
- : Following new legislation in Copercia, fat-shaming is now public policy.
- : Following new legislation in Copercia, newspapers and TV broadcasters are given a list of 'acceptable words'.
- : Following new legislation in Copercia, high-income earners pay a 100% tax rate.