Population | 21.955 billion |
Capital | Port Threadbare |
Leader | Governor Lynus Threadbare of Argyl |
Faith | Reformed Lintism |
Currency | Minibuck |
Animal | Fluffy Dragon |
The Trust Territory of Socks of All Sorts is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Governor Lynus Threadbare of Argyl with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, triple-decker prams, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 21.955 billion Socks 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Port Threadbare. The average income tax rate is 95.3%.
The frighteningly efficient Sockish economy, worth a remarkable 4,393 trillion Minibucks a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Gambling. Average income is an amazing 200,126 Minibucks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 584,649 per year while the poor average 54,097, a ratio of 10.8 to 1.
The government has little issue with allowing its citizens to languish in foreign jails, vile black smog from coal power plants has enveloped several major urban centres, airplane passenger seat sizes and ticket prices are both first-class, and the recently liberated free press cautiously uses compliment sandwiches to cushion its criticisms of Governor Lynus Threadbare of Argyl. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Socks of All Sorts's national animal is the Fluffy Dragon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Reformed Lintism.
Socks of All Sorts is ranked 288,590th in the world and 236th in The Regected Realns for Highest Food Quality, scoring 3.8 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Socks of All Sorts was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Largest Black Market and Most Advanced Public Education and the Top 5% for Highest Average Incomes, Highest Economic Output, and Highest Wealthy Incomes.
- : Socks of All Sorts's influence in The Regected Realns rose from "Page" to "Squire".
- : Socks of All Sorts's influence in The Regected Realns rose from "Shoeshiner" to "Page".
- : Socks of All Sorts's influence in The Regected Realns rose from "Zero" to "Shoeshiner".
- : Socks of All Sorts relocated from The Rejected Realms to The Regected Realns.
- : Socks of All Sorts's influence in The Rejected Realms rose from "Zero" to "Unproven".
- : Socks of All Sorts relocated from Meerkanteel to The Rejected Realms.
- : Socks of All Sorts was ejected from Meerkanteel by The Territorial Government of Irish Traders 001a.
- : Socks of All Sorts's influence in Meerkanteel rose from "Vassal" to "Truckler".
- : Socks of All Sorts's influence in Meerkanteel rose from "Apprentice" to "Vassal".