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Most Stationary: 928thLargest Populations: 3,173rdMost World Assembly Endorsements: 17,843rd
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Sandy Shoes

Population33 billion

Currencydollar
Animalbadger

The Principality of Sandy Shoes is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 33 billion Sandy Shoesians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 69.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Sandy Shoesian economy, worth 969 trillion dollars 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 a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, Woodchip Exports, and Pizza Delivery. 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 29,382 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Elections have been outlawed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sandy Shoes's national animal is the badger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sandy Shoes is ranked 928th in the world and 10th in Florida for Most Stationary, with 4,793.66359872 days.

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Most Stationary: 928thTop
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Largest Populations: 3,173rdTop
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Most World Assembly Endorsements: 17,843rdHighest Foreign Aid Spending: 21,098thMost Influential: 21,229thHighest Workforce Participation Rate: 26,724th
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Most World Assembly Endorsements: 4th in the region

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  • : Sandy Shoes was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Dead.
  • : Sandy Shoes was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Survivors.
  • : Sandy Shoes was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Largest Populations.
  • : Sandy Shoes was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Dead.
  • : Sandy Shoes was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Zombies and the Top 5% for Most Survivors.
  • : Sandy Shoes was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Economic Output.
  • : Sandy Shoes was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Black Market.
  • : Sandy Shoes was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Workforce Participation Rate.
  • : Sandy Shoes was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Economic Output.
  • : Sandy Shoes was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Economic Output.

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