Pony Lands

Income equality has never been our strong suit. It's what we get for protecting economic freedom.

Xarxis is second in the whole region for Income Equality, yet somehow we're only in the Top 5% Region-Wide.

*sudden realization*
Which means to be in the 1%, you must also be #1. Looks like it's time to hike taxes even higher, and slam the rich HARD!

"Which means to be in the 1%, you must also be #1."
Right. We won't have 1% trophies until we have 200 members.

We've been hovering around 160 lately.

"EXPLAIN SCIENTISTS, EXPLAIN!"
Biologists tend to be really bad at naming stuff. I wouldn't be surprised if the feather-bellied anisopter is neither feather-bellied nor an anisopter.

Knitters In A Knot Over Police Stitch Up

After a peaceful public knitting class was dispersed by riot police, the citizenry are up in arms at what they perceive as unnecessary police brutality.

The Debate

1. "With all due respect, Princess Celestia, you weren't there, so you don't know the full story", your police chief states candidly. "These thugs were loitering in Dragon Park brandishing weapons! They were up to something - mark my words! Besides, if it wasn't for our brave police officers, who knows what kind of damage they could have caused. We've got to come down hard on thugs like these and ban groups comprising of three or more people. That'll stop any troublemaking, I'm sure of it!"

2. "Weapons? WEAPONS? They were knitting needles you imbecile!" shouts Natalia Cruz, the elderly President of the Magical Equestria Knitting League, brandishing a pair of pins in the direction of the police chief. "The only thugs in Dragon Park that day were the riot police - protectors of public safety my royal rump! They fired rubber bullets at us without any warning. Rubber bullets! And I'm only out of the hospital after getting my hip replacement. You MUST do something about these trigger-happy hooligans. Clearly if they can't tell the difference between criminals and geriatrics they need retraining!"

3. "Retraining the entire police force would cost far too much", your financial advisor says quietly, appearing from behind your chair. "That being said, the crazy lady with the woolly hat is right, we do have to do something about this situation. We can't have the police force appear brutal and unruly. What we should do is ban all sorts of dangerous weapons. That way the police force won't have to worry about dangerous thugs with guns, and the public can rest easy knowing the police force won't be able to brutally attack them either. And we can get rid of the riot police too as they clearly won't be needed, which saves us money! Everybody wins!"

We got a mental image of Granny Smith standing in the Royal Court chewing out Shining Armor. So naturally we're voting for option 2.

10 hours ago: New Nukehavistan was ranked #1 in the region for Largest Mining Sector (last census: Top 5%).
10 hours ago: New Nukehavistan was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Largest Mining Sector (last census: Top 5%).
New Nukehavistan is ranked 1st in Pony Lands and 1,042nd in the world for Largest Mining Sector, scoring 15 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.

Congratulations on your dominance of the uranium mining market and complete lack of mining safety laws!