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Largest Welfare Programs: 18,316thMost Inclusive: 20,327thLargest Mining Sector: 23,511th
The Loving Couple of
Father Knows Best State
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Influence
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Thanks-ToThem

Population3.44 billion

CapitalGravesfield
LeaderVee
FaithCards

Currencysnail
Animalowl

The Loving Couple of Thanks-ToThem is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Vee with an iron fist, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, avant-garde cinema, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 3.44 billion Thanks-ToThemians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gravesfield. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 72.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Thanks-ToThemian economy, worth 338 trillion snails a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 98,444 snails, with the richest citizens earning 8.1 times as much as the poorest.

Endangered bison are herded across the border to prevent them from trampling on native prairie grass, open-casket funerals are avoided at all cost, citizens often ask "what has information technology ever done for us?", and Thanks-ToThemian companies generally just fire employees in lieu of giving them vacation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thanks-ToThem's national animal is the owl, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Cards.

Thanks-ToThem is ranked 76,581st in the world and 3rd in The spaghetti land for Most Primitive, scoring 32.43 on the Scary Big Number Scale.

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Largest Welfare Programs: 18,316thMost Inclusive: 20,327thLargest Mining Sector: 23,511thMost Advanced Public Transport: 25,401stMost Patriotic: 27,980thMost Advanced Defense Forces: 28,061stMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 28,996th

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Thanks-ToThem was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Inclusive and Most Patriotic.
  • : Thanks-ToThem was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Subsidized Industry.
  • : Following new legislation in Thanks-ToThem, Thanks-ToThemian companies generally just fire employees in lieu of giving them vacation.
  • : Following new legislation in Thanks-ToThem, citizens often ask "what has information technology ever done for us?".
  • : Following new legislation in Thanks-ToThem, open-casket funerals are avoided at all cost.
  • : Following new legislation in Thanks-ToThem, endangered bison are herded across the border to prevent them from trampling on native prairie grass.
  • : Following new legislation in Thanks-ToThem, diaper sales are up.
  • : Thanks-ToThem was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Advanced Public Education.
  • : Following new legislation in Thanks-ToThem, out-of-work soldiers and bureaucrats can often be found camped out in front of manservant academies.
  • : Following new legislation in Thanks-ToThem, the people's love for Vee is little more than self-preservation.

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