Population | 19.706 billion |
Capital | Thalasse City |
Leader | Leader |
Faith | Peace |
Currency | Flower |
Animal | Radioactive Butterfly |
The Eternal Misfortune of Thalasse is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Leader with a fair hand, and renowned for its compulsory vegetarianism, rampant corporate plagiarism, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 19.706 billion Thalasseans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.
It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded, outspoken government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Thalasse City. The income tax rate is 100%.
The frighteningly efficient Thalassean economy, worth a remarkable 6,617 trillion Flowers a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an amazing 335,799 Flowers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Most ambassadors from Thalasse retire only a few years after being appointed, leading ethologists are being investigated for illegal electoral interference, confessions don't count if suffixed with "izzle", and people make a career out of medical voyeurism. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thalasse's national animal is the Radioactive Butterfly, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Peace.
Thalasse is ranked 292,120th in the world and 36th in Pencil Sharpeners Puppet Storage for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -66.12 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Thalasse, people make a career out of medical voyeurism.
- : Following new legislation in Thalasse, confessions don't count if suffixed with "izzle".
- : Following new legislation in Thalasse, leading ethologists are being investigated for illegal electoral interference.
- : Following new legislation in Thalasse, most ambassadors from Thalasse retire only a few years after being appointed.
- : Thalasse was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Publishing Industry.
- : Following new legislation in Thalasse, the ruling party has a devil of a time keeping order in the ranks.
- : Following new legislation in Thalasse, the new Radioactive Butterfly Supremacy Party is faring well in the polls.
- : Following new legislation in Thalasse, the saying 'break a leg' is now taken literally.
- : Following new legislation in Thalasse, national parks have long lines of different gender-specific 'Porta-Pottys'.
- : Following new legislation in Thalasse, gigantic marble churches take up almost half the land area of small villages.