The Most Serene Republic of Pioustan is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its frequent executions, fear of technology, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 26.702 billion Pioustanians 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dogma. The average income tax rate is 97.6%.
The strong Pioustanian economy, worth a remarkable 3,034 trillion Tithes a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 113,629 Tithes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.
Commuters are denied boarding for attempting to bring packed lunches onto trains, young people devote their entire lives to the faith, the fire brigade often deal with cases of burnt toast, and people who make the leader's blood boil get boiled. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pioustan's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Pioustan is ranked 3,392nd in the world and 1st in Stanistan for Lowest Crime Rates, with 126.72 law-abiding acts per hour.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Pioustan was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Poor Incomes.
- : Pioustan was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Safest.
- : Pioustan was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Poor Incomes.
- : Following new legislation in Pioustan, people who make the leader's blood boil get boiled.
- : Following new legislation in Pioustan, the fire brigade often deal with cases of burnt toast.
- : Following new legislation in Pioustan, young people devote their entire lives to the faith.
- : Following new legislation in Pioustan, commuters are denied boarding for attempting to bring packed lunches onto trains.
- : Following new legislation in Pioustan, the government has been criticized for giving away Pioustan's territory to anyone who claims it.
- : Pioustan was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Conservative.
- : Following new legislation in Pioustan, rebuilding efforts for a recently destroyed cathedral aren't expected to be completed for another century.
