Spotlight on:
The Shopping Mall Tyranny of Konzum K-plus |
“GREATEST SHOPPING MALL IN THE UNIVERSE!!!”
Category: Iron Fist Consumerists | ||
Civil Rights: Outlawed |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Unheard Of |
Location: Psychotic Dictatorships |
Regional Influence: Ambassador |
The Shopping Mall Tyranny of Konzum K-plus is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Supreme Leader Ivica Todoric with an iron fist, and notable for its deadly medical pandemics, sprawling nuclear power plants, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 15.919 billion SHOPPERS 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, although Law & Order is also considered important, while Welfare and Environment aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Konzum Shopping Mall. The average income tax rate is 98.1%.
The frighteningly efficient Konzum K-plusian economy, worth a remarkable 8,414 trillion Floggings a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is a breathtaking 528,594 Floggings, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.
Military equipment stores have a tendency to go up in flames, student athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned Salmonellaball fields, pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects, and historical commemorations regularly devolve into militaristic jingoism. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. Konzum K-plus's national animal is the Salmonella, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Consumerism.
Konzum K-plus is ranked 141,794th in the world and 57th in Psychotic Dictatorships for Most Stationary, with 197.3758459016 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Konzum K-plus, historical commemorations regularly devolve into militaristic jingoism.
- : Following new legislation in Konzum K-plus, pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects.
- : Following new legislation in Konzum K-plus, student athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned Salmonellaball fields.
- : Following new legislation in Konzum K-plus, military equipment stores have a tendency to go up in flames.
- : Following new legislation in Konzum K-plus, endocrinology is a rapidly growing field of study.
- : Following new legislation in Konzum K-plus, criminals are thrown to the Salmonellas to repay their debt to society.
- : Following new legislation in Konzum K-plus, the nation's most popular sport is sabotaging foreigners' hopes and dreams.
- : Following new legislation in Konzum K-plus, girls in elementary school classes gaze longingly at boys playing tag.
- : Following new legislation in Konzum K-plus, boys who even ask about cheerleading are placed on the Sex Offenders Register.
- : Following new legislation in Konzum K-plus, a common response to government PSAs is "well, DUH, obviously".