Spotlight on:
The Purple flowers of Purple 6 |
“Flowers!”
Category: Iron Fist Consumerists | ||
Civil Rights: Few |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Few |
Location: Nerdlandia |
Regional Influence: Apprentice |
The Purple flowers of Purple 6 is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by The Purple with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, enslaved workforce, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.748 billion Purple 6ians 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 Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Flowerville. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 92.5%.
The frighteningly efficient Purple 6ian economy, worth a remarkable 3,239 trillion Petals 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, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. 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 an amazing 301,383 Petals, with the richest citizens earning 7.9 times as much as the poorest.
Law schools are hurrying to teach the "prank defense" to their students, ten-year-olds regularly found their own political parties, doctors prescribe medicines but they rarely dispense hope or compassion, and policemen regularly conduct midnight raids on closed donut shops to 'collect evidence'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Purple 6's national animal is the Honey bee, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Purple.
Purple 6 is ranked 45,128th in the world and 26th in Nerdlandia for Most Stationary, with 972.92768982588 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Purple 6, policemen regularly conduct midnight raids on closed donut shops to 'collect evidence'.
- : Following new legislation in Purple 6, doctors prescribe medicines but they rarely dispense hope or compassion.
- : Following new legislation in Purple 6, ten-year-olds regularly found their own political parties.
- : Following new legislation in Purple 6, law schools are hurrying to teach the "prank defense" to their students.
- : Following new legislation in Purple 6, the saying 'break a leg' is now taken literally.
- : Following new legislation in Purple 6, it ain't easy to be green enough to be imported into Purple 6.
- : Following new legislation in Purple 6, immigrant Maxtopians are routinely sold on popular internet auction sites.
- : Purple 6 was reclassified from "Psychotic Dictatorship" to "Iron Fist Consumerists".
- : Following new legislation in Purple 6, civil servants are no longer allowed to cross their t's.
- : Following new legislation in Purple 6, many Purple 6ians twitch nervously at the sight of nuns.