The Clown Town of Jokersville is a colossal, safe nation, renowned for its restrictive gun laws and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 5.305 billion clowns enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.
The medium-sized, moralistic, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 33.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.
The sizeable but stagnant funny economy, worth 53.5 trillion jokes a year, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Woodchip Exports, and Retail. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 10,089 jokes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Jokersville's national animal is the bat.
Jokersville is ranked 262,210th in the world and 8,027th in Suspicious for Highest Food Quality, scoring 7.13 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
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Jokersville applied to join the World Assembly.
- : Jokersville altered its national flag.
- : Jokersville changed its national animal to "bat", its currency to "joke", its demonym to "clown", its demonym adjective to "funny", its motto to "ARE YOU LAUGHING NOW BATMAN?", and its nation type to "Clown Town".
- : Jokersville altered its national flag.
- : Jokersville's influence in Suspicious rose from "Minnow" to "Sprat".
- : Jokersville was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Extreme.
- : Jokersville was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Extreme.
- : Jokersville was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Politically Free.
- : Jokersville was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Least Corrupt Governments.
- : Jokersville was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Politically Free.
