Population | 40.707 billion |
Capital | Sunnydale |
Leader | Sweets |
Faith | Whedonism |
Currency | Child Bride |
Animal | Vampire Slayer |
The Musical Plague of Tap-Dancing Demons is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Sweets with an iron fist, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, enslaved workforce, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 40.707 billion Tap-Dancing Demonsians 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.
The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sunnydale. The average income tax rate is 73.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Tap-Dancing Demonsian economy, worth a remarkable 5,634 trillion Child Brides 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Furniture Restoration, Tourism, 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 an impressive 138,418 Child Brides, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.
Politicians sweat as journalists scour internet archives for any mention of them, court verdicts are predictable to within a hundredth of a percentage point, it is believed that belligerence is a passing phase foreign leaders will soon outgrow, and forgetting to pay your annual passport bill is a leading cause of deportations. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive. Tap-Dancing Demons's national animal is the Vampire Slayer, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Whedonism.
Tap-Dancing Demons is ranked 306,377th in the world and 23rd in Haiku for Most Cultured, scoring -32 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Tap-Dancing Demons, forgetting to pay your annual passport bill is a leading cause of deportations.
- : Following new legislation in Tap-Dancing Demons, it is believed that belligerence is a passing phase foreign leaders will soon outgrow.
- : Following new legislation in Tap-Dancing Demons, court verdicts are predictable to within a hundredth of a percentage point.
- : Tap-Dancing Demons was reclassified from "Corrupt Dictatorship" to "Father Knows Best State".
- : Following new legislation in Tap-Dancing Demons, politicians sweat as journalists scour internet archives for any mention of them.
- : Following new legislation in Tap-Dancing Demons, mountain rescuers refer to their new gear as the 'watchamacallits' and 'thingymabobs'.
- : Following new legislation in Tap-Dancing Demons, respect is something that is typically forced rather than earned in Tap-Dancing Demons.
- : Following new legislation in Tap-Dancing Demons, the nation's generous tax credits have brought all the film studios to the yard.
- : Following new legislation in Tap-Dancing Demons, state officials tend to disappear after they forget to salute Sweets's portrait.
- : Following new legislation in Tap-Dancing Demons, the nation's countrysides are littered with landmines due to ongoing family disputes.