The Colony of Pointe-aux-Coques is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, daily referendums, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 37.539 billion Pointe-aux-Coquesians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.
The enormous, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, with Welfare, Environment, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Defense are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Belle Baie. The average income tax rate is 92.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The strong Pointe-aux-Coquesian economy, worth a remarkable 3,853 trillion sous a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 102,666 sous, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Would-be emigrants are told "abandon all hope all ye who would exit here", frisbee games on college quadrangles are grounds for expulsion, crossword puzzles have been co-opted as a symbol of racial discrimination, and the government mails weekly updates on the new anti-junk mail laws to every citizen. Crime is totally unknown. Pointe-aux-Coques's national animal is the castor, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Pointe-aux-Coques is ranked 3,270th in the world and 11th in The Maritimes for Safest, scoring 138.26 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.
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Pointe-aux-Coques was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, Highest Economic Output, Most Advanced Public Education, Most Beautiful Environments, and Most Stationary.
- : Following new legislation in Pointe-aux-Coques, the government mails weekly updates on the new anti-junk mail laws to every citizen.
- : Following new legislation in Pointe-aux-Coques, crossword puzzles have been co-opted as a symbol of racial discrimination.
- : Following new legislation in Pointe-aux-Coques, frisbee games on college quadrangles are grounds for expulsion.
- : Following new legislation in Pointe-aux-Coques, would-be emigrants are told "abandon all hope all ye who would exit here".
- : Following new legislation in Pointe-aux-Coques, government statisticians explain census inaccuracies by declaring that "Sith happens".
- : Pointe-aux-Coques was reclassified from "Liberal Democratic Socialists" to "Left-wing Utopia".
- : Pointe-aux-Coques was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Influential.
- : Pointe-aux-Coques was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Influential.
- : Following new legislation in Pointe-aux-Coques, the acceptance of acupuncture and other alternative therapies has needled the scientific community.
