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Highest Wealthy Incomes: 14,776thHighest Workforce Participation Rate: 19,198thLargest Basket Weaving Sector: 20,391st
The Seedy bar of
Iron Fist Consumerists
A bar on every corner...!
Influence
Hatchling
Civil Rights
Rare
Economy
Powerhouse
Political Freedom
Rare

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Liquorland

Population1.851 billion

CapitalThe Bar

CurrencyBottle cap
AnimalBottlenose Dolphin

The Seedy bar of Liquorland is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its soft-spoken computers, state-planned economy, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 1.851 billion Liquorlandians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Education, and Industry also on the agenda, while Welfare receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Bar. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 44.4%.

The powerhouse Liquorlandian economy, worth 174 trillion Bottle caps 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 slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. 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 94,033 Bottle caps, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 400,690 per year while the poor average 14,190, a ratio of 28.2 to 1.

It can be a real jungle in a modern courtroom, officials pull all-nighters to check immigrants for potential links to terrorists, a good deed is rewarded with a thank you note attached to a deportation order, and the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Liquorland's national animal is the Bottlenose Dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Liquorland is ranked 69,517th in the world and 1,930th in The North Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 3,129.58 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.

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Highest Wealthy Incomes: 14,776thHighest Workforce Participation Rate: 19,198thLargest Basket Weaving Sector: 20,391stBest Weather: 20,733rdMost Beautiful Environments: 24,508thSafest: 24,542ndMost Advanced Defense Forces: 25,127thMost Compassionate Citizens: 25,700thLargest Manufacturing Sector: 27,003rd
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Greatest Rich-Poor Divides: 318th in the regionTop
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Highest Wealthy Incomes: 343rd in the regionLargest Basket Weaving Sector: 534th in the regionHighest Workforce Participation Rate: 572nd in the regionMost Advanced Defense Forces: 586th in the region

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Liquorland was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Beautiful Environments and Highest Wealthy Incomes.
  • : Liquorland was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Wealthy Incomes.
  • : Following new legislation in Liquorland, the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry.
  • : Liquorland was reclassified from "Psychotic Dictatorship" to "Iron Fist Consumerists".
  • : Following new legislation in Liquorland, a good deed is rewarded with a thank you note attached to a deportation order.
  • : Following new legislation in Liquorland, officials pull all-nighters to check immigrants for potential links to terrorists.
  • : Following new legislation in Liquorland, it can be a real jungle in a modern courtroom.
  • : Following new legislation in Liquorland, homeowners are evicted to make way for new runways.
  • : Following new legislation in Liquorland, government employees have reverted to carrier pigeon due to never-ending virus scans.
  • : Following new legislation in Liquorland, the Violetist community celebrates bombshells being dropped on Liquorland.

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