Spotlight on:
The Republic of Moss on Trees |
“MOSS!”
Category: Authoritarian Democracy | ||
Civil Rights: Rare |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Below Average |
Location: Forest |
Regional Influence: Minnow |
The Republic of Moss on Trees is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its ritual sacrifices, fear of technology, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 4.427 billion Moss on Treesians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.
The enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 84.6%.
The frighteningly efficient Moss on Treesian economy, worth 535 trillion moss balls a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, Retail, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 120,897 moss balls, with the richest citizens earning 6.7 times as much as the poorest.
Boot polish is the favourite lip gloss of entry-level corporate workers, embarrassed police officers wear spandex and carry net guns, sexuality-questioning teenagers are placed in locked rooms with dirty magazines and lewd posters, and the military will start wars with other nations on a lark. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Moss on Trees's national animal is the moss bug, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
Moss on Trees is ranked 72,840th in the world and 182nd in Forest for Lowest Crime Rates, with 69.64 law-abiding acts per hour.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Moss on Trees, the military will start wars with other nations on a lark.
- : Following new legislation in Moss on Trees, sexuality-questioning teenagers are placed in locked rooms with dirty magazines and lewd posters.
- : Following new legislation in Moss on Trees, embarrassed police officers wear spandex and carry net guns.
- : Following new legislation in Moss on Trees, boot polish is the favourite lip gloss of entry-level corporate workers.
- : Following new legislation in Moss on Trees, truncheon-mounted cameras record the beating of criminals in dynamic HD detail.
- : Moss on Trees was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Average Tax Rates and Most Advanced Defense Forces.
- : Following new legislation in Moss on Trees, if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it... Moss on Treesian satellites can detect it.
- : Following new legislation in Moss on Trees, military pilots spend more time scraping feathers off their engines than flying their aircraft.
- : Following new legislation in Moss on Trees, group hugs break out during floor votes.
- : Following new legislation in Moss on Trees, mining safety laws are often more expensive than what's being mined.