The Glorious Republic of Basket Cases
Population | 20.398 billion |
Capital | Basketopia |
Currency | Basket |
Animal | Giant Rat |
The Democratic Republic of The Glorious Republic of Basket Cases is a gargantuan, genial nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, sprawling nuclear power plants, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 20.398 billion Basket Cases have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.
The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Basketopia. The average income tax rate is 98.8%.
The frighteningly efficient Basket Casean economy, worth a remarkable 2,928 trillion Baskets a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Pizza Delivery. Average income is an impressive 143,559 Baskets, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.
Funeral directors are frequently looking at their watches during funerals, there's more vermin than ever on the metro, students at universities think exercise bikes are pieces of abstract art, and Basket Casean husbands are dead good at fathering kids. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Glorious Republic of Basket Cases's national animal is the Giant Rat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
The Glorious Republic of Basket Cases is ranked 10,022nd in the world and 87th in the Rejected Realms for Most Stationary, with 2,342.9180491426 days.
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