by Max Barry

Latest Forum Topics

Advertisement

Most Valuable International Artwork: 1,398thLargest Retail Industry: 6,048thLargest Black Market: 10,982nd
The Loving Couple of
Psychotic Dictatorship
Lumity
Influence
Eminence Grise
Region
Civil Rights
Few
Economy
Frightening
Political Freedom
Unheard Of

Overview Policies People Government Economy Rank Trend Cards

OfficialCouple

Population9.93 billion

CapitalPixie Village
LeaderBone Boy
FaithCards

Currencysnail
Animalowl

The Loving Couple of OfficialCouple is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Bone Boy with an iron fist, and notable for its feral children, compulsory vegetarianism, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 9.93 billion OfficialCoupleans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pixie Village. The average income tax rate is 60.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient OfficialCouplean economy, worth a remarkable 1,218 trillion snails a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 122,712 snails, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens need a magnifying glass and color chart to distinguish between nearly identical brand labels, children as young as eight can present logical proofs for the existence of the afterlife, OfficialCouplean schoolgirl uniforms have become alarmingly popular outside OfficialCouple, and business owners return from long vacations to find their factories have been turned into homeless shelters. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. OfficialCouple's national animal is the owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Cards.

OfficialCouple is ranked 54,794th in the world and 1st in Spear Danes for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 4,494.68 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.

Top
1%
Most Valuable International Artwork: 1,398thTop
5%
Largest Retail Industry: 6,048thLargest Black Market: 10,982ndHighest Unexpected Death Rate: 11,989thMost Avoided: 13,355thTop
10%
Largest Information Technology Sector: 20,209thLargest Mining Sector: 23,647thMost Subsidized Industry: 24,585thMost Authoritarian: 26,168thHighest Poor Incomes: 26,644thMost Stationary: 28,687thMost Influential: 28,869thLargest Timber Woodchipping Industry: 31,082nd

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : OfficialCouple was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry.
  • : OfficialCouple was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry.
  • : OfficialCouple was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Stationary and Most Cultured.
  • : OfficialCouple was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry.
  • : OfficialCouple was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Cultured.
  • : OfficialCouple was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Cultured.
  • : OfficialCouple was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry.
  • : OfficialCouple was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry.
  • : OfficialCouple was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry.
  • : OfficialCouple was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Cultured.

More...

Report