The Republic of Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 32 is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its vat-grown people, ubiquitous missile silos, and ritual sacrifices. The compassionate population of 5.463 billion Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 32ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.
The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shimmerlight. The average income tax rate is 29.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.
The strong Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 32ian economy, worth 316 trillion Bits 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, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Cheese Exports, and Woodchip Exports. 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 57,973 Bits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Popular cartoon characters frequently appear in government-sponsored PSAs reminding students to say no to drugs, citizens are encouraged to report friends, family members or co-workers who seem depressed to the government for "counselling", the "temporary replacement bus service" is now a permanent fixture, and the nation's navy has been named the scourge of the seven thousand seas. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 32's national animal is the Pony, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 32 is ranked 28,442nd in the world and 8th in Sunset Shimmer for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 227.73 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 32, the nation's navy has been named the scourge of the seven thousand seas.
- : Following new legislation in Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 32, the "temporary replacement bus service" is now a permanent fixture.
- : Following new legislation in Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 32, citizens are encouraged to report friends, family members or co-workers who seem depressed to the government for "counselling".
- : Following new legislation in Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 32, popular cartoon characters frequently appear in government-sponsored PSAs reminding students to say no to drugs.
- : Following new legislation in Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 32, armed security details escort librarians to their homes.
- : Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 32 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Foreign Aid Spending and Most Scientifically Advanced.
- : Following new legislation in Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 32, skateboarding is punishable by heavy fines.
- : Following new legislation in Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 32, Leader spends weekends doing the laundry of foreign leaders.
- : Following new legislation in Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 32, legislators toe the party line lest the Sergeant-at-Arms decide to conduct "truncheon practice" on the backbench.
- : Following new legislation in Sunset Shimmer is Best Pony 32, the government is a clear-cut case of tyranny by majority.
