The Allied States of Mother Love Bone is a colossal, orderly nation, renowned for its teetotalling pirates, prohibition of alcohol, and fear of technology. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 8.127 billion Mother Love Boneans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."
The enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 91.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Mother Love Bonean economy, worth a remarkable 1,475 trillion dollars 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Retail, Uranium Mining, and Pizza Delivery. 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 an impressive 181,612 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.
The suicide rate mysteriously skyrockets during census years, unruly families are deliberately marooned on desert islands, hipster cyclists declare that "metal is dead", and Leader's pleasure palace epitomizes corruption. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Mother Love Bone's national animal is the horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Mother Love Bone is ranked 10,234th in the world and 591st in Lazarus for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 91.01 Effective Tax Rate.
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Mother Love Bone, Leader's pleasure palace epitomizes corruption.
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Mother Love Bone, hipster cyclists declare that "metal is dead".
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Mother Love Bone, unruly families are deliberately marooned on desert islands.
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Mother Love Bone, the suicide rate mysteriously skyrockets during census years.
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Mother Love Bone, tumbleweeds made of litter adorn city streets.
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Mother Love Bone was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Advanced Public Transport.
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Mother Love Bone, euthanasia is illegal.
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Mother Love Bone, the realistic depiction of tentacles is on the core syllabus of most art schools.
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Mother Love Bone, the government is purchasing vast amounts of palm oil for plastics production.
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Mother Love Bone, endocrinology is a rapidly growing field of study.