Spotlight on:
The Animal Farm of Grottammare |
“... but some animals are more equal than others”
Category: Civil Rights Lovefest | ||
Civil Rights: Frightening |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: World Benchmark |
Location: Caribbean |
Regional Influence: Power |
The Animal Farm of Grottammare is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Napoleon with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 37.064 billion Grottammareans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.
The enormous, liberal, outspoken government prioritizes Education, although Welfare, Environment, and Social Policy are also considered important, while Defense and Law & Order receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Big Barn. The income tax rate is 100%.
The frighteningly efficient Grottammarean economy, worth a remarkable 8,138 trillion Old Majors a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 219,585 Old Majors, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Every week is blindness awareness week, children are disappointed to learn that cavemen never had a yabba-dabba-doo time riding dinosaurs to work, power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky, and ADHD now stands for Attention Distracted by Hardware Devices. Crime is well under control. Grottammare's national animal is the Middle White, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Animalism.
Grottammare is ranked 365th in the world and 1st in Caribbean for Most Cultured, scoring 548 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Grottammare, ADHD now stands for Attention Distracted by Hardware Devices.
- : Following new legislation in Grottammare, power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky.
- : Following new legislation in Grottammare, children are disappointed to learn that cavemen never had a yabba-dabba-doo time riding dinosaurs to work.
- : Following new legislation in Grottammare, every week is blindness awareness week.
- : Following new legislation in Grottammare, the mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas.
- : Grottammare voted for the World Assembly Resolution "Ban on Sexual Abuse of Animals".
- : Following new legislation in Grottammare, stranded mountaineers can watch livestreamed footage of their rescues.
- : Following new legislation in Grottammare, the dessert 'Death by Chocolate' isn't the most lethal dish on the menu.
- : Following new legislation in Grottammare, many whiskies taste suspiciously like automobile radiators.
- : Following new legislation in Grottammare, the art of conversation has been rediscovered.
World Assembly
Endorsements Received: None.