Population | 8.749 billion |
Currency | card |
Animal | farm |
The Blessed Bird of Gio Farm 80 is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, frequent executions, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 8.749 billion Gio Farm 80ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.
The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 73.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Gio Farm 80ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,042 trillion cards a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 119,206 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.
Foreigners write "made in Gio Farm 80" on shoddy merchandise in hope of receiving a buy-out, interviewees for teaching jobs are waterboarded to "reveal undesirable histories", politicians are often found scavenging bins at night to supplement their income, and escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gio Farm 80's national animal is the farm, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Gio Farm 80 is ranked 36,553rd in the world and 193rd in Giovanniland for Most Corrupt Governments, with 59.48 kickbacks per hour.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Gio Farm 80, escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky.
- : Following new legislation in Gio Farm 80, politicians are often found scavenging bins at night to supplement their income.
- : Following new legislation in Gio Farm 80, interviewees for teaching jobs are waterboarded to "reveal undesirable histories".
- : Following new legislation in Gio Farm 80, foreigners write "made in Gio Farm 80" on shoddy merchandise in hope of receiving a buy-out.
- : Following new legislation in Gio Farm 80, citizens seem fixated on 105m x 45m rectangles.
- : Gio Farm 80 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Economic Output.
- : Following new legislation in Gio Farm 80, wedding bands come in pairs to form wedding manacles.
- : Gio Farm 80 was reclassified from "Democratic Socialists" to "Authoritarian Democracy".
- : Following new legislation in Gio Farm 80, fair-weather fans talk during plays while die-hard theatre enthusiasts stay at home.
- : Following new legislation in Gio Farm 80, the government tells its citizens to 'forgive and forget'.