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The Card Gardener of EpLeHo |
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Category: Father Knows Best State | ||
Civil Rights: Below Average |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Rare |
Location: Card Gardens |
Regional Influence: Eminence Grise |
The Card Gardener of EpLeHo is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Giovanniland with an iron fist, and renowned for its avant-garde cinema, ritual sacrifices, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 8.834 billion Gardeners 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of World Collection Center. The average income tax rate is 77.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Gardener economy, worth a remarkable 1,231 trillion Cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 139,366 Cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.
Prison walls have had to be modified to keep parkour-trained criminals from escaping, six-year-old children playing dress-up are viewed with suspicion, government popup ads are springing up like weeds, and Gardeners suffer not the eggplant emoji to live. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. EpLeHo's national animal is the Gardens, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Card Farming.
EpLeHo is ranked 16,965th in the world and 1st in Card Gardens for Lowest Crime Rates, with 92.32 law-abiding acts per hour.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in EpLeHo, Gardeners suffer not the eggplant emoji to live.
- : Following new legislation in EpLeHo, government popup ads are springing up like weeds.
- : Following new legislation in EpLeHo, six-year-old children playing dress-up are viewed with suspicion.
- : Following new legislation in EpLeHo, prison walls have had to be modified to keep parkour-trained criminals from escaping.
- : Following new legislation in EpLeHo, going on a diet invalidates your passport.
- : EpLeHo was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Scientifically Advanced.
- : Following new legislation in EpLeHo, parents giddily refuse to pay their toddlers' medical bills.
- : Following new legislation in EpLeHo, superfoods are often seen as supervillains.
- : Following new legislation in EpLeHo, former slave-owners hope there are no hard feelings when they apply for jobs from their erstwhile charges.
- : Following new legislation in EpLeHo, the upper class have been throwing riots after hunting was recently banned.