Spotlight on:
The Makasta puppet of Peting |
“By The People For The People”
Category: Authoritarian Democracy | ||
Civil Rights: Rare |
Economy: Powerhouse |
Political Freedoms: Few |
Location: Alliance of Supreme Powers |
Regional Influence: Sprat |
The Makasta puppet of Peting is a colossal, orderly nation, notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The cynical, devout population of 6.141 billion Petingians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.
The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 53.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The powerhouse Petingian economy, worth 530 trillion deniers 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 a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, Retail, and Arms Manufacturing. 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 86,407 deniers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.
Weird or unusual crimes merit cruel and unusual punishments, conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings, political visitors are forced to stop ten paces from Leader's throne, and Petingian Standard Vodka is the only drink that bars stock. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Peting's national animal is the kangaroo, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Peting is ranked 47,418th in the world and 699th in Alliance of Supreme Powers for Most Stationary, with 926.0377059466 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Peting, Petingian Standard Vodka is the only drink that bars stock.
- : Following new legislation in Peting, political visitors are forced to stop ten paces from Leader's throne.
- : Following new legislation in Peting, conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings.
- : Following new legislation in Peting, weird or unusual crimes merit cruel and unusual punishments.
- : Following new legislation in Peting, the men in trenchcoats hanging around playgrounds are actually police officers.
- : Following new legislation in Peting, the government regularly reassures citizens that there are no monsters under their beds.
- : Following new legislation in Peting, a fashion designer has been arrested for inciting hatred after claiming redheads couldn't pull off vermillion.
- : Following new legislation in Peting, scientists are not permitted to ask questions.
- : Following new legislation in Peting, newspapers and TV broadcasters are given a list of 'acceptable words'.
- : Following new legislation in Peting, Petingian police have to pay out of their own pockets for bulletproof vests.