Population | 10.552 billion |
Capital | Enfield |
Leader | Chef Andy |
Faith | Maillard |
Currency | Beans |
Animal | Butter |
The All Sorts of Taost is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Chef Andy with an iron fist, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, compulsory military service, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 10.552 billion Taostians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.
The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Enfield. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 68.1%.
The frighteningly efficient Taostian economy, worth a remarkable 1,374 trillion Beans a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Cheese Exports, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 130,298 Beans, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 844,669 per year while the poor average 8,038, a ratio of 105 to 1.
Soldiers are taught to throw their guns at their enemies once the bullets have run out, umbrellas are back in fashion, the temple hierarchy have found that endorsements are even more lucrative than indulgences, and Taostian doors require a Ph.D. to open. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Taost's national animal is the Butter, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Maillard.
Taost is ranked 88,090th in the world and 26th in Bus Stop for Most Stationary, with 519.48506336268 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Taost's influence in Bus Stop rose from "Envoy" to "Diplomat".
- : Taost was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Average Incomes.
- : Taost was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Average Incomes.
- : Taost was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry.
- : Taost was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Highest Wealthy Incomes.
- : Taost was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Highest Wealthy Incomes.
- : Taost's influence in Bus Stop fell from "Diplomat" to "Envoy".
- : Taost was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Efficient Economies.
- : Taost's influence in Bus Stop rose from "Envoy" to "Diplomat".
- : Taost was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Welfare Programs.