The Republic of Fortissax is a huge, orderly nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, ubiquitous missile silos, and parental licensing program. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 576 million Fortissaxians 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 80.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The sizeable but inefficient Fortissaxian economy, worth 28.9 trillion Eating dungs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 50,193 Eating dungs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Parking lots are littered with coffee cups and doughnut crumbs, it is illegal to have the wrong clock time showing on your microwave oven, pet owners must make a payment if their charges leave a deposit, and internet searches for the inventor of the three-wheeled steam-powered Fortissaxian weed picker are way up. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fortissax's national animal is the THE DEATHBED COMPANION, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Fortissax is ranked 19,993rd in the world and 1st in Enzonarian Industrial District 1 for Nicest Citizens, with 22.81 average smiles per day.
National Happenings
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Fortissax was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Cultured.
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Fortissax, internet searches for the inventor of the three-wheeled steam-powered Fortissaxian weed picker are way up.
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Fortissax, pet owners must make a payment if their charges leave a deposit.
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Fortissax, it is illegal to have the wrong clock time showing on your microwave oven.
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Fortissax, parking lots are littered with coffee cups and doughnut crumbs.
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Fortissax, the government is continually probing the galaxy in search of alien life.
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Fortissax was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector and the Top 10% for Largest Welfare Programs and Highest Foreign Aid Spending.
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Fortissax, relations with Dàguó have warmed from frosty to chilly.
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Fortissax, criminals and college students are taking an interest in the government's new weed-killing program.
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Fortissax, business meetings across the country are interrupted by the sound of squeaking whoopee-cushions.