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Largest Furniture Restoration Industry: 119thMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 549thLargest Black Market: 649th
The Musical Plague of
Father Knows Best State
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Tap-Dancing Demons

Population40.707 billion

CapitalSunnydale
LeaderSweets
FaithWhedonism

CurrencyChild Bride
AnimalVampire 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.

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Largest Furniture Restoration Industry: 119thMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 549thLargest Black Market: 649thMost Ignorant Citizens: 734thMost Subsidized Industry: 958thMost Corrupt Governments: 962ndMost Avoided: 1,263rdLargest Populations: 1,270thMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 1,652ndFattest Citizens: 1,835thHighest Crime Rates: 2,609thHighest Economic Output: 2,659thMost Valuable International Artwork: 2,761stHighest Unexpected Death Rate: 2,769thTop
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Most Stationary: 5,436thMost Influential: 5,459thMost Eco-Friendly Governments: 6,161stHighest Foreign Aid Spending: 6,756thMost Extensive Public Healthcare: 7,471stMost Rebellious Youth: 7,743rdMost Efficient Economies: 9,408thTop
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Most Advanced Defense Forces: 17,897thMost Advanced Public Education: 18,964thHighest Poor Incomes: 19,042ndMost Armed: 19,095thMost Primitive: 21,327thMost Beautiful Environments: 21,421stMost World Assembly Endorsements: 22,090thLargest Welfare Programs: 23,395thHighest Average Incomes: 26,748thLargest Mining Sector: 27,673rdLargest Governments: 28,487thHighest Average Tax Rates: 29,733rd
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Most Influential: 1st in the regionHighest Crime Rates: 1st in the regionHighest Unexpected Death Rate: 1st in the regionLargest Populations: 1st in the regionMost Ignorant Citizens: 1st in the regionMost Corrupt Governments: 1st in the regionMost Avoided: 1st in the regionLargest Black Market: 1st in the regionLargest Furniture Restoration Industry: 1st in the regionTop
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Most Valuable International Artwork: 2nd in the regionMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 2nd in the regionMost Advanced Defense Forces: 2nd in the regionMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 2nd in the regionMost Subsidized Industry: 2nd in the regionFattest Citizens: 2nd in the region

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.

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