The Republic of Puppetstan10 is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, pith helmet sales, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 2.999 billion Puppetstan10ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."
The enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 76.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Puppetstan10ian economy, worth 380 trillion guilders a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Retail, Woodchip Exports, Basket Weaving, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 126,848 guilders, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.
Toddlers are wielding machine guns in the name of national defense, exceptionally healthy police officers can sprint after crooks for hours on end, homosexuality has been banned to prevent the spread of homosexuality, and police spend their Saturday nights breaking up illegal street races. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Puppetstan10's national animal is the cow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Puppetstan10 is ranked 276,465th in the world and 38th in Puppetstan for Most Beautiful Environments, with 7.24 pounds of wildlife per square mile.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Puppetstan10 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Primitive, Largest Black Market, and Most Advanced Public Education and the Top 10% for Most Avoided and Highest Foreign Aid Spending.
- : Puppetstan10 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Extensive Public Healthcare.
- : Following new legislation in Puppetstan10, police spend their Saturday nights breaking up illegal street races.
- : Following new legislation in Puppetstan10, homosexuality has been banned to prevent the spread of homosexuality.
- : Following new legislation in Puppetstan10, exceptionally healthy police officers can sprint after crooks for hours on end.
- : Following new legislation in Puppetstan10, toddlers are wielding machine guns in the name of national defense.
- : Puppetstan10 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Avoided.
- : Following new legislation in Puppetstan10, the sudden proliferation of nuclear weapons is very queer.
- : Following new legislation in Puppetstan10, when electric cars arrived nobody heard them coming.
- : Following new legislation in Puppetstan10, Leader has declared a weed sticking through a crack in the sidewalk to be the nation's newest green space.
