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The Republic of CSBs Colour-000099

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The Republic of CSBs Colour-000099 is a massive, safe nation, notable for its zero percent divorce rate, public floggings, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, devout population of 1.263 billion CSBs Colour-000099ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 56.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish CSBs Colour-000099ian economy, worth 41.2 trillion Paint Brushes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Beef-Based Agriculture, Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 32,651 Paint Brushes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Politicians bribe ten-year-old geniuses to sit their aptitude tests, newspapers and TV broadcasters are given a list of 'acceptable words', the Holy Office of the Inquisition is the highest court in the land, and the nation's universities are often mistaken for foreign embassies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. CSBs Colour-000099's national animal is the Unicorn, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

CSBs Colour-000099 is ranked 266,077^th in the world and 12,621^st in Lazarus for Smartest Citizens, with 21.47 quips per hour.

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