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The Grand Duchy of Germ0ney

“Germoney”

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The Grand Duchy of Germ0ney is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, complete lack of prisons, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed population of 610 million Germ0neyians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Germoney totally not cage. The average income tax rate is 72.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Germ0neyian economy, worth 16.2 trillion germoneys a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 26,511 germoneys, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Arts classes now teach children how to sketch the perfect sine curve, flatulent people are left to die of cancer at the end of hospital waiting lists, internet trolls are considered valiant supporters of the right to free speech, and nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Germ0ney's national animal is the germoney, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Germ0ney is ranked 275,642^nd in the world and 21^st in Nova Britannia Prima for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 47.56 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.

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