The United Socialist States of Puppets are complicated XL is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its pith helmet sales, prohibition of alcohol, and stringent health and safety legislation. The devout population of 234 million Puppets are complicated XLians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.
The large government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 57.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The sizeable but inefficient Puppets are complicated XLian economy, worth 12.5 trillion marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Cheese Exports, and Tourism. Average income is 53,557 marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.
There's sophisticated talk of revolution within the ever-expanding mining colonies, copies of the constitution are used as toilet paper, armed war-criminals gain asylum if deemed 'fabulous' enough, and the government is reining in public spending. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Puppets are complicated XL's national animal is the emu, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Puppets are complicated XL is ranked 236,337th in the world and 77th in Adairidae for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -2 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
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Puppets are complicated XL, the government is reining in public spending.
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Puppets are complicated XL, armed war-criminals gain asylum if deemed 'fabulous' enough.
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Puppets are complicated XL, copies of the constitution are used as toilet paper.
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Puppets are complicated XL, there's sophisticated talk of revolution within the ever-expanding mining colonies.
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Puppets are complicated XL, veteran cops reminisce over their heavy armor days.
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Puppets are complicated XL, in court almost every witness is a hostile witness.
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Puppets are complicated XL, teachers regularly paddle unruly students.
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Puppets are complicated XL, country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized.
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Puppets are complicated XL, political candidates who don't release their birth certificates are presumed to have been born in Maxtopia.
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Puppets are complicated XL, drill sergeants yell in the ears of bespectacled nerds in cybermilitary "reboot camps".