The Republic of Touching Grass 28 is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, ban on automobiles, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 3.345 billion Touching Grass 28ians 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Industry, Law & Order, and Administration are also considered important, while International Aid receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of 28. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 64.3%.
The frighteningly efficient Touching Grass 28ian economy, worth 349 trillion 28s a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Tourism, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 104,431 28s, with the richest citizens earning 8.0 times as much as the poorest.
Pharmaceutical companies emphatically promise that "your pills are in the mail" rather than admit any supply shortfall, Leader has no checks and balances after the upper house was abolished, reflection is vital for badly behaved politicians, and prisoners work-share to cut down rising costs of keeping them in jail. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Touching Grass 28's national animal is the 28, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.
Touching Grass 28 is ranked 220,223rd in the world and 280th in The Funian Puppet Region for Most Primitive, scoring -96.55 on the Scary Big Number Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
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Touching Grass 28 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Inclusive, Most Developed, and Most Patriotic.
- : Following new legislation in Touching Grass 28, prisoners work-share to cut down rising costs of keeping them in jail.
- : Following new legislation in Touching Grass 28, reflection is vital for badly behaved politicians.
- : Following new legislation in Touching Grass 28, Leader has no checks and balances after the upper house was abolished.
- : Following new legislation in Touching Grass 28, pharmaceutical companies emphatically promise that "your pills are in the mail" rather than admit any supply shortfall.
- : Following new legislation in Touching Grass 28, the government expresses surprisingly intense opinions on the use of whip pans.
- : Following new legislation in Touching Grass 28, seasonal hay-fever sufferers are attending government drug counselling sessions to get free doughnuts.
- : Following new legislation in Touching Grass 28, doctors refer to inner-cities as newbie zones.
- : Following new legislation in Touching Grass 28, Touching Grass 28's first free elections in recent memory have been successfully concluded.
- : Following new legislation in Touching Grass 28, one tree's worth of paperwork accompanies each imported log of timber.
