Population | 3.233 billion |
Capital | The Extremely Stressful Time |
Currency | Excess Exclamation Marks |
Animal | Exasperated Height |
The Republic of The High is a massive, cultured nation, renowned for its closed borders, pith helmet sales, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, devout population of 3.233 billion Highians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.
The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Extremely Stressful Time. The average income tax rate is 13.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.
The Highian economy, worth 221 trillion Excess Exclamation Marks a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 68,412 Excess Exclamation Marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.
Prisoners due for execution often use their final statement to complain about soggy bread rolls, the government is spending billions of taxpayer Excess Exclamation Marks to support "struggling" industries, The High is increasingly belligerent on the international stage, and the government only invests in infrastructure after a natural disaster. Crime, especially youth-related, is a serious problem. The High's national animal is the Exasperated Height, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
The High is ranked 84,529th in the world and 102nd in The Funian Puppet Region for Most Stationary, with 555.67133187012 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in The High, the government only invests in infrastructure after a natural disaster.
- : Following new legislation in The High, The High is increasingly belligerent on the international stage.
- : Following new legislation in The High, the government is spending billions of taxpayer Excess Exclamation Marks to support "struggling" industries.
- : Following new legislation in The High, prisoners due for execution often use their final statement to complain about soggy bread rolls.
- : Following new legislation in The High, animal liberationists receive government funding to break into animal research labs.
- : Following new legislation in The High, national park visitors are reporting a rash of poison ivy sightings.
- : Following new legislation in The High, nature magazines featuring stick insects on their covers are sometimes mistaken for fashion magazines.
- : Following new legislation in The High, convicted criminals are given free limo rides to jail.
- : Following new legislation in The High, euthanasia is legal.
- : Following new legislation in The High, signs of extraterrestrial life are just foreign astronauts evading Highian justice.