Population | 43.03 billion |
Currency | GP |
Animal | fox |
The Landsraad Member Nation of Shotagon is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, daily referendums, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 43.03 billion Shotagonians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Public Transport. The average income tax rate is 85.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The very strong Shotagonian economy, worth a remarkable 3,086 trillion GPS a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Gambling. Average income is 71,740 GPS, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.
The tenet of free speech is held dear, citizens are regularly found digging for treasure in their gardens, anti-government web sites are springing up, and unemployment rates have skyrocketed as businesses abandon the country in search of cheap labour. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shotagon's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Shotagon is ranked 16,377th in the world and 922nd in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 98 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Shotagon was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Stationary.
- : Shotagon was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Food Quality.
- : Shotagon was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Food Quality and Most Stationary.
- : Shotagon was struck by a Mk II (Sterilizer) Cure Missile from The Confederacy of Saundie, curing 407 million infected.
- : Shotagon was struck by a Mk II (Sterilizer) Cure Missile from The Confederacy of Saundie, curing 289 million infected.
- : Shotagon was struck by a Mk II (Sterilizer) Cure Missile from The Confederacy of Saundie, curing 241 million infected.
- : Shotagon was struck by a Mk II (Sterilizer) Cure Missile from The Confederacy of Saundie, curing 299 million infected.
- : Shotagon was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Food Quality.
- : Shotagon was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Cultured.
- : Shotagon was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Politically Apathetic Citizens.