Spotlight on:
The Principality of Purple Rain 18 |
“Justice, Piety, Loyalty”
Category: Psychotic Dictatorship | ||
Civil Rights: Unheard Of |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Rare |
Location: NationStates |
Regional Influence: Shoeshiner |
The Principality of Purple Rain 18 is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Prince with an iron fist, and notable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, smutty television, and daily referendums. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 5.714 billion Purple Rain 18ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."
The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of St Paul. The average income tax rate is 76.2%.
The frighteningly efficient Purple Rain 18ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,373 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, 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 240,334 deniers, with the richest citizens earning 5.3 times as much as the poorest.
Calvinball players are lost for days as they wander the vast halls of their new academies, beating enemies to death with a baseball bat is legal if done within nine innings, 50% of adverts on children's television are for clothes made of cotton wool, and signs of extraterrestrial life are just foreign astronauts evading Purple Rain 18ian justice. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Purple Rain 18's national animal is the dolphin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Love Symbol.
Purple Rain 18 is ranked 47,043rd in the world and 420th in NationStates for Most Stationary, with 932.89420850288 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Purple Rain 18, signs of extraterrestrial life are just foreign astronauts evading Purple Rain 18ian justice.
- : Following new legislation in Purple Rain 18, 50% of adverts on children's television are for clothes made of cotton wool.
- : Following new legislation in Purple Rain 18, beating enemies to death with a baseball bat is legal if done within nine innings.
- : Following new legislation in Purple Rain 18, Calvinball players are lost for days as they wander the vast halls of their new academies.
- : Following new legislation in Purple Rain 18, police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds.
- : Following new legislation in Purple Rain 18, the might of the entire Purple Rain 18ian Navy is focused on fifty bemused spear-throwing islanders.
- : Following new legislation in Purple Rain 18, claiming to have performed the Heimlich Maneuver is a popular defense for assault charges.
- : Following new legislation in Purple Rain 18, children who display even minimal sporting aptitude are immediately assigned a personal trainer.
- : Following new legislation in Purple Rain 18, foreign musicians that Prince dislikes are turned away at the border.
- : Following new legislation in Purple Rain 18, travelers are subject to extensive searches if beet stains are visible on their clothing.