Spotlight on:
The Fairy of Sugarplum Jam |
“God, Homeland, Liberty”
Category: Authoritarian Democracy | ||
Civil Rights: Rare |
Economy: Fair |
Political Freedoms: Very Good |
Location: the Rejected Realms |
Regional Influence: Shoeshiner |
The Fairy of Sugarplum Jam is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, pith helmet sales, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed population of 11.378 billion Sugarplum Jamians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.
The large, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 53.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The large but underdeveloped Sugarplum Jamian economy, worth 411 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 slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Information Technology, and Retail. 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 36,202 deniers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
The "feminist protest" defence is increasingly common for cases of armed robbery, Harry Potter books are banned, the weather report is the prisoners' favourite programme, and fewer people are bathing as citizens must show ration stamps before they can turn on their faucets. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sugarplum Jam's national animal is the unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Sugarplum Jam is ranked 20,840th in the world and 291st in the Rejected Realms for Most Stationary, with 1,582.11418189072 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Sugarplum Jam was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Dead and Most Zombified.
- : Sugarplum Jam was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Armed.
- : Sugarplum Jam was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Income Equality.
- : Sugarplum Jam was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Income Equality.
- : Sugarplum Jam was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Dead and Most Zombified.
- : Sugarplum Jam was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Black Market.
- : Sugarplum Jam was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Income Equality.
- : Sugarplum Jam was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Black Market.
- : Sugarplum Jam was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Black Market.
- : Sugarplum Jam was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Income Equality.