The Helpful Horse of Gio Farm 72 is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, otherworldly petting zoo, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, devout population of 8.737 billion Gio Farm 72ians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.
The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 66.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Gio Farm 72ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,132 trillion cards a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Soda Sales, Automobile Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 129,663 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.
Anyone who sneezes at border crossings is turned away, kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles, tech-mad citizens think that the laser-powered bread-slicer uPhone App is the coolest thing since sliced bread, and asking 'does my bum look big in this?' leads to 30 hours of self-esteem classes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gio Farm 72's national animal is the farm, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Gio Farm 72 is ranked 26,246th in the world and 42nd in Giovanniland for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 6,148.33 on the Gilded Widget Scale.
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Gio Farm 72, asking 'does my bum look big in this?' leads to 30 hours of self-esteem classes.
- : Following new legislation in Gio Farm 72, tech-mad citizens think that the laser-powered bread-slicer uPhone App is the coolest thing since sliced bread.
- : Following new legislation in Gio Farm 72, kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles.
- : Following new legislation in Gio Farm 72, anyone who sneezes at border crossings is turned away.
- : Following new legislation in Gio Farm 72, schoolchildren must pass a six-month Ethics and Safety Committee Assessment before they are allowed to mix baking soda and vinegar.
- : Following new legislation in Gio Farm 72, the government is in utter turmoil following the recent abolishment of the tax code.
- : Following new legislation in Gio Farm 72, prison is a nightmare.
- : Following new legislation in Gio Farm 72, if the best leaders are those who don't want to lead then Leader's lack of leadership must be a great leadership quality.
- : Following new legislation in Gio Farm 72, sheepish teenagers are making eye contact with their parents for the first time in a decade during state-enforced 'no-phones hour'.
- : Following new legislation in Gio Farm 72, the government baselessly accuses foreign dignitaries of being assassins.
