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The First Webcam Experience of Granny Harriet |
“Can you hear me?”
Category: Moralistic Democracy | ||
Civil Rights: Few |
Economy: Powerhouse |
Political Freedoms: Good |
Location: Bakersville |
Regional Influence: Enforcer |
The First Webcam Experience of Granny Harriet is a colossal, cultured nation, notable for its aversion to nipples, lack of airports, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 7.025 billion Granny Harrietians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.
The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 15.2%.
The powerhouse Granny Harrietian economy, worth 554 trillion Chips a year, is led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is 78,987 Chips, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 258,609 per year while the poor average 18,120, a ratio of 14.3 to 1.
Thousands of children die every day from easily curable illnesses, jumping in puddles after rainstorms has become an indoor activity, construction workers evacuate work sites after finding sharp rocks on the ground, and cities in Granny Harriet declare independence based on interpretation of the historic meaning of cave paintings. Crime is a problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Granny Harriet's national animal is the Cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Granny Harriet is ranked 21,671st in the world and 4th in Bakersville for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 66,981.18 Standard Monetary Units.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Granny Harriet was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Avoided and the Top 10% for Largest Black Market and Highest Disposable Incomes.
- : Granny Harriet was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry.
- : Following new legislation in Granny Harriet, cities in Granny Harriet declare independence based on interpretation of the historic meaning of cave paintings.
- : Following new legislation in Granny Harriet, construction workers evacuate work sites after finding sharp rocks on the ground.
- : Following new legislation in Granny Harriet, jumping in puddles after rainstorms has become an indoor activity.
- : Following new legislation in Granny Harriet, thousands of children die every day from easily curable illnesses.
- : Following new legislation in Granny Harriet, public parks are on the upswing.
- : Following new legislation in Granny Harriet, politicians accepting drinks in bars are executed for taking bribes.
- : Following new legislation in Granny Harriet, businesses often fire workers in favour of cheaper automatic systems.
- : Following new legislation in Granny Harriet, gossip magazines are more interested in astrological stars than celebrity ones.