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Most Politically Apathetic Citizens: 3,283rdLargest Timber Woodchipping Industry: 3,368thLargest Black Market: 3,517th
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Happy Thoughts

Population17.672 billion

CapitalCelebrations
LeaderFaithguide Wendy Regina the Lovely
FaithFollowers of the Regions Featured

Currencygold Kindness
AnimalHappy Ghost Kitty

The Lucky Blue Dance Festivals of Happy Thoughts is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Faithguide Wendy Regina the Lovely with an iron fist, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, smutty television, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 17.672 billion Happy Thinkers are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Administration, although Industry, Law & Order, and Education are also considered important, while International Aid and Public Transport aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Celebrations. The average income tax rate is 80.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Happy economy, worth a remarkable 2,634 trillion gold Kindnesses a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, Retail, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 149,065 gold Kindnesses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Talkative students are escorted from schools in second-hand prison buses, museums offer moralization or your money back, it is still not known if the commander in chief outranks the supreme commander, and spotted owl meat is used as bait to lure wolves into traps. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Happy Thoughts's national animal is the Happy Ghost Kitty, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Followers of the Regions Featured.

Happy Thoughts is ranked 26,250th in the world and 3rd in The Featured Region Followers for Highest Average Incomes, with 149,065.4 Standard Monetary Units.

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Most Politically Apathetic Citizens: 3,283rdLargest Timber Woodchipping Industry: 3,368thLargest Black Market: 3,517thMost Subsidized Industry: 5,212thNudest: 5,393rdMost Valuable International Artwork: 5,442ndMost Avoided: 5,937thMost Extensive Public Healthcare: 7,316thMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 7,431stMost Stationary: 7,460thMost Eco-Friendly Governments: 7,644thMost Corrupt Governments: 8,521stLargest Retail Industry: 8,685thMost Influential: 10,689thHighest Economic Output: 11,387thLargest Mining Sector: 12,943rdMost Advanced Public Education: 13,554thTop
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Most Ignorant Citizens: 16,416thHighest Average Tax Rates: 16,606thLargest Furniture Restoration Industry: 16,798thHighest Poor Incomes: 19,062ndLargest Welfare Programs: 19,649thLargest Arms Manufacturing Sector: 19,655thLargest Populations: 22,842ndMost Efficient Economies: 25,278thHighest Average Incomes: 26,250thMost Devout: 27,732nd
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Largest Retail Industry: 1st in the regionMost Valuable International Artwork: 1st in the regionMost Stationary: 1st in the regionHighest Drug Use: 1st in the regionMost Avoided: 1st in the regionLargest Timber Woodchipping Industry: 1st in the regionMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 1st in the regionMost Influential: 1st in the regionMost Developed: 1st in the regionMost Armed: 1st in the region

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  • : Happy Thoughts was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Ignorant Citizens.
  • : Happy Thoughts was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Ignorant Citizens.
  • : Happy Thoughts was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Ignorant Citizens.
  • : Following new legislation in Happy Thoughts, spotted owl meat is used as bait to lure wolves into traps.
  • : Following new legislation in Happy Thoughts, it is still not known if the commander in chief outranks the supreme commander.
  • : Following new legislation in Happy Thoughts, museums offer moralization or your money back.
  • : Following new legislation in Happy Thoughts, talkative students are escorted from schools in second-hand prison buses.
  • : Following new legislation in Happy Thoughts, government expenses are beyond compare.
  • : Happy Thoughts was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Average Tax Rates.
  • : Happy Thoughts was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Ignorant Citizens.

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