Spotlight on:
The Delicacies of Ladies Dancing |
“Dancing the Night Away”
Category: Iron Fist Consumerists | ||
Civil Rights: Some |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Few |
Location: 12 Days of Christmas |
Regional Influence: Dealmaker |
The Delicacies of Ladies Dancing is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Darcey Bussell with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ritual sacrifices, public floggings, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.346 billion Ladies Dancingians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Walsingham. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 41.5%.
The frighteningly efficient Ladies Dancingian economy, worth 872 trillion Slippers a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 118,732 Slippers, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 336,103 per year while the poor average 33,539, a ratio of 10.0 to 1.
The urinary fragrance of seedier establishments is thankfully hidden by the smell of stale smoke, obstetricians are not allowed to publish ultrasound pictures of fetuses in medical journals, motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours, and parents giddily refuse to pay their toddlers' medical bills. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ladies Dancing's national animal is the Black Swan, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Dancing.
Ladies Dancing is ranked 40,923rd in the world and 8th in 12 Days of Christmas for Most Stationary, with 1,098.86326894928 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Ladies Dancing, parents giddily refuse to pay their toddlers' medical bills.
- : Following new legislation in Ladies Dancing, motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours.
- : Following new legislation in Ladies Dancing, obstetricians are not allowed to publish ultrasound pictures of fetuses in medical journals.
- : Following new legislation in Ladies Dancing, the urinary fragrance of seedier establishments is thankfully hidden by the smell of stale smoke.
- : Following new legislation in Ladies Dancing, prodigal children celebrate as charitable bequests plummet.
- : Ladies Dancing was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Agricultural Sector.
- : Following new legislation in Ladies Dancing, Black Swans are considered a delicacy.
- : Following new legislation in Ladies Dancing, anyone who sneezes at border crossings is turned away.
- : Following new legislation in Ladies Dancing, copies of the constitution are used as toilet paper.
- : Following new legislation in Ladies Dancing, sales of disinfectant wipes have skyrocketed.