The Republic of Brain slug 27 is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its public floggings, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.949 billion Brain slug 27ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.
The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 63.1%.
The frighteningly efficient Brain slug 27ian economy, worth 502 trillion Brain slug Coins a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 170,530 Brain slug Coins, with the richest citizens earning 8.1 times as much as the poorest.
Cowboys often wear wolfskin jackets to the saloon, Brain slug 27 City's back alleys are rife with sausage eating, the government is seen to favor traditionalist religions, and all screens are equal but some are more equal than others. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Brain slug 27's national animal is the Human, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Brain slug 27 is ranked 265,364th in the world and 81st in Nerdlandia for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 40.94 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.
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Most Recent Government Activity:
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Brain slug 27, all screens are equal but some are more equal than others.
- : Following new legislation in Brain slug 27, the government is seen to favor traditionalist religions.
- : Following new legislation in Brain slug 27, Brain slug 27 City's back alleys are rife with sausage eating.
- : Following new legislation in Brain slug 27, cowboys often wear wolfskin jackets to the saloon.
- : Following new legislation in Brain slug 27, ambitious "businessmen" use their children to sell and advertise their products.
- : Following new legislation in Brain slug 27, scientists are not permitted to ask questions.
- : Following new legislation in Brain slug 27, family trees become bare as entire branches are lopped off.
- : Following new legislation in Brain slug 27, the nation's laws on image rights are amongst the strictest in the world.
- : Brain slug 27 was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Corrupt Governments.
- : Following new legislation in Brain slug 27, trick-or-treaters and circus clowns have been arrested under suspicion of being renegade vigilantes.
