Population | 602 million |
Capital | Beanstopolis |
Currency | seeds |
Animal | bean |
The Colony of Bean territorry is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its public floggings, frequent executions, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 602 million Bean territorryians 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Beanstopolis. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 19.0%.
The Bean territorryian economy, worth 35.0 trillion seeds a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Gambling. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 58,097 seeds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 179,386 per year while the poor average 14,516, a ratio of 12.4 to 1.
Religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else, discarded pennies litter the streets, alcoholics are lauded as national benefactors within the halls of the Ministry of Finance, and drivers regularly pull over for nonexistent police cars. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bean territorry's national animal is the bean, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Bean territorry is ranked 23,577th in the world and 60th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Safest, scoring 112.22 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Bean territorry, drivers regularly pull over for nonexistent police cars.
- : Bean territorry's influence in The Region That Has No Big Banks rose from "Minnow" to "Sprat".
- : Following new legislation in Bean territorry, alcoholics are lauded as national benefactors within the halls of the Ministry of Finance.
- : Following new legislation in Bean territorry, discarded pennies litter the streets.
- : Following new legislation in Bean territorry, religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else.
- : Following new legislation in Bean territorry, police spend their Saturday nights breaking up illegal street races.
- : Following new legislation in Bean territorry, kissing cousins produce the heartiest babies.
- : Bean territorry lodged a message on the The Region That Has No Big Banks Regional Message Board.
- : Following new legislation in Bean territorry, grade school teachers mark homework with red "CITATION NEEDED" stamps.
- : Following new legislation in Bean territorry, judges are all-powerful.