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Highest Drug Use: 2,021stMost Income Equality: 16,041stMost Beautiful Environments: 23,454th
The Fantastical Floral Forest of
Left-wing Utopia
Plants are pretty great tbh
A Human-Shaped Shrub
Influence
Ambassador
Region
Civil Rights
Excessive
Economy
Fragile
Political Freedom
Superb

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Ferndum

Population8.352 billion

CapitalA Very Large Fern
LeaderA Human-Shaped Shrub
FaithProper Gardening

CurrencyFern
AnimalCaterpillar

The Fantastical Floral Forest of Ferndum is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by A Human-Shaped Shrub with a fair hand, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, rampant corporate plagiarism, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 8.352 billion Ferndumians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of A Very Large Fern. The average income tax rate is 40.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Ferndumian economy, worth 155 trillion Ferns 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, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Trout Farming, Gambling, and Basket Weaving. 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 18,669 Ferns, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Artists are pillars of society, the nation is known abroad mostly for its Parliamentary antics, A Human-Shaped Shrub has just been declared ruler of Ferndum in an international press conference, and Proper Gardening has been named as Ferndum's national religion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Ferndum's national animal is the Caterpillar, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Proper Gardening.

Ferndum is ranked 39,506th in the world and 6th in Shinka for Most Stationary, with 1,146.77984244932 days.

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Highest Drug Use: 2,021stTop
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Most Income Equality: 16,041stMost Beautiful Environments: 23,454thBest Weather: 26,060thMost Influential: 27,921stMost Extensive Civil Rights: 29,313th
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Highest Drug Use: 1st in the regionMost Influential: 2nd in the regionTop
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Nudest: 5th in the regionMost Inclusive: 5th in the regionMost Extensive Civil Rights: 6th in the regionMost Stationary: 6th in the regionMost Income Equality: 6th in the regionMost Beautiful Environments: 7th in the region

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Ferndum was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Extensive Civil Rights.
  • : Ferndum was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Extensive Civil Rights.
  • : Ferndum's influence in Shinka rose from "Diplomat" to "Ambassador".
  • : Ferndum was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Influential.
  • : Ferndum's influence in Shinka fell from "Ambassador" to "Diplomat".
  • : Ferndum's influence in Shinka rose from "Diplomat" to "Ambassador".
  • : Ferndum's influence in Shinka fell from "Ambassador" to "Diplomat".
  • : Ferndum's influence in Shinka rose from "Diplomat" to "Ambassador".
  • : Ferndum's influence in Shinka fell from "Ambassador" to "Diplomat".
  • : Ferndum's influence in Shinka rose from "Diplomat" to "Ambassador".

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