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The Emirate of Thorn131 |
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Category: Moralistic Democracy | ||
Civil Rights: Few |
Economy: Frightening |
Political Freedoms: Some |
Location: Suspicious |
Regional Influence: Sprat |
The Emirate of Thorn131 is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its smutty television, complete lack of prisons, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 5.082 billion Thorn131ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.
The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 79.8%.
The frighteningly efficient Thorn131ian economy, worth 625 trillion Golds a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 123,097 Golds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.
Gun-wielding gangsters sometimes deal death from as far as ten paces away, wildlife parks are packed with poachers yet increasingly devoid of animals, imitation is the sincerest form of felony, and the silencing of dissent speaks volumes about the quality of Thorn131ian democracy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thorn131's national animal is the Wolf, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Thorn131 is ranked 25,686th in the world and 78th in Suspicious for Largest Governments, scoring 28.35 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Thorn131, the silencing of dissent speaks volumes about the quality of Thorn131ian democracy.
- : Following new legislation in Thorn131, imitation is the sincerest form of felony.
- : Following new legislation in Thorn131, wildlife parks are packed with poachers yet increasingly devoid of animals.
- : Following new legislation in Thorn131, gun-wielding gangsters sometimes deal death from as far as ten paces away.
- : Following new legislation in Thorn131, standing on a chair to reach a top shelf is seen as evidence of narcissistic personality disorder.
- : Thorn131 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Devout.
- : Following new legislation in Thorn131, politicians sweat as journalists scour internet archives for any mention of them.
- : Following new legislation in Thorn131, search-and-rescue organisations are the biggest employer in the country.
- : Following new legislation in Thorn131, corporations claim the third ounce of any metal traded in a wicker-cone on the Sunday of a full moon as a charitable expense.
- : Following new legislation in Thorn131, search and rescue forces now accept cheques and all major credit cards.