Location: the West Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Impending baldness of Ethel mermania is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Fearless Leader with an iron fist, and remarkable for its complete absence of social welfare. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 5.949 billion are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Law & Order, although Education and Public Transport are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Great White Way. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 2%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

The controversial show 'Who Wants to be an Immigrant?' has become wildly popular, the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit, new safety regulations require all cars manufactured in Ethel mermania to be bombproof, and muscular women are banned from competing in sporting competitions. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is well under control, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ethel mermania's national animal is the ethel merman, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is the cult of fearless leaderism, and its currency is the yid.

Ethel mermania is ranked 2,592nd in the West Pacific and 70,253rd in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 16 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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