Spotlight on:
The Theocracy of Shiraba |
“I know the secret”
Category: Capitalist Paradise | ||
Civil Rights: Good |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Average |
Location: the West Pacific |
Regional Influence: Shoeshiner |
The Theocracy of Shiraba is a gargantuan, cultured nation, notable for its zero percent divorce rate, free-roaming dinosaurs, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 16.602 billion Shirabans are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.
The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.2%.
The frighteningly efficient Shiraban economy, worth a remarkable 3,863 trillion Good deeds a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 232,725 Good deeds, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 901,698 per year while the poor average 41,167, a ratio of 21.9 to 1.
Childhood friends of Leader are living it large abroad at the taxpayers' expense, maximum security fish farms leave caged salmon pining for the fjords, farting etiquette is taught in schools, and concert halls sport signs proclaiming "No Shorts, Sandals or Swastikas". Crime is totally unknown. Shiraba's national animal is the Dove, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
Shiraba is ranked 2,824th in the world and 44th in the West Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 223 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Shiraba, concert halls sport signs proclaiming "No Shorts, Sandals or Swastikas".
- : Following new legislation in Shiraba, farting etiquette is taught in schools.
- : Following new legislation in Shiraba, maximum security fish farms leave caged salmon pining for the fjords.
- : Following new legislation in Shiraba, childhood friends of Leader are living it large abroad at the taxpayers' expense.
- : Following new legislation in Shiraba, a suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League.
- : Shiraba was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Rebellious Youth and the Top 10% for Most Patriotic.
- : Following new legislation in Shiraba, law schools are hurrying to teach the "prank defense" to their students.
- : Following new legislation in Shiraba, the rich tend their gardens inside gated urban farming communities.
- : Following new legislation in Shiraba, the Shiraba Enquirer offers weekly cash prizes for 'most blasphemous song, story, or cartoon'.
- : Following new legislation in Shiraba, cricket farmers use magnifying glasses to fit every member of their herd with tiny tracking tags.