Spotlight on:
The Friendly Foxes of Gio Farm 68 |
“Card Farming”
Category: Iron Fist Consumerists | ||
Civil Rights: Few |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Rare |
Location: Giovanniland |
Regional Influence: Squire |
The Friendly Foxes of Gio Farm 68 is a colossal, orderly nation, notable for its enslaved workforce, infamous sell-swords, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 8.603 billion Gio Farm 68ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."
The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 70.5%.
The frighteningly efficient Gio Farm 68ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,095 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Tourism. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 127,386 cards, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 398,232 per year while the poor average 31,265, a ratio of 12.7 to 1.
The internet has been placed under government control, videogames like 'Equalia: Knights of Self-Confidence' are proving inexplicably unpopular, convicted criminals are given free limo rides to jail, and building a phallus out of Minecraft blocks counts as indecent exposure. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gio Farm 68's national animal is the farm, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Gio Farm 68 is ranked 30,890th in the world and 58th in Giovanniland for Lowest Crime Rates, with 82.2 law-abiding acts per hour.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Gio Farm 68, building a phallus out of Minecraft blocks counts as indecent exposure.
- : Following new legislation in Gio Farm 68, convicted criminals are given free limo rides to jail.
- : Following new legislation in Gio Farm 68, videogames like 'Equalia: Knights of Self-Confidence' are proving inexplicably unpopular.
- : Following new legislation in Gio Farm 68, the internet has been placed under government control.
- : Following new legislation in Gio Farm 68, virtual assistants are seen with increasing suspicion every time they get an upgrade.
- : Gio Farm 68 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Black Market and the Top 10% for Most Politically Apathetic Citizens.
- : Gio Farm 68's influence in Giovanniland rose from "Page" to "Squire".
- : Gio Farm 68 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Beautiful Environments.
- : Gio Farm 68 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Politically Apathetic Citizens and Most Beautiful Environments.
- : Following new legislation in Gio Farm 68, mountain rescuers refer to their new gear as the 'watchamacallits' and 'thingymabobs'.