The Loving Couple of -I-Ship It is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Nunnally with an iron fist, and renowned for its public floggings, smutty television, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.122 billion -I-Ship Itians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.
The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Britannia. The average income tax rate is 67.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient -I-Ship Itian economy, worth 946 trillion dollars 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, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 154,600 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.
Snooze factory is now prison lingo for rehabilitation center, space research funding has hit a recent high while several military bases are being closed down, all major public areas are watched by police surveillance cameras, and the travel industry is booming as pregnant women book tickets for "weekend trips" overseas. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. -I-Ship It's national animal is the dove, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Cards.
-I-Ship It is ranked 80,231st in the world and 126th in Democratic Socialist Assembly for Lowest Crime Rates, with 68.51 law-abiding acts per hour.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in
-I-Ship It, the travel industry is booming as pregnant women book tickets for "weekend trips" overseas.
- : Following new legislation in -I-Ship It, all major public areas are watched by police surveillance cameras.
- : Following new legislation in -I-Ship It, space research funding has hit a recent high while several military bases are being closed down.
- : Following new legislation in -I-Ship It, snooze factory is now prison lingo for rehabilitation center.
- : Following new legislation in -I-Ship It, the restriction that you must be over 1.1 metres tall to ride a carnotaurus has recently been waived.
- : Following new legislation in -I-Ship It, guns don't kill people — heroes do.
- : Following new legislation in -I-Ship It, superstitious folk make gestures to ward off evil whenever they see a refrigeration unit.
- : Following new legislation in -I-Ship It, garishly-decorated government buildings are being hailed as the height of 'religious nouveau'.
- : -I-Ship It was reclassified from "Psychotic Dictatorship" to "Corrupt Dictatorship".
- : -I-Ship It was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Poor Incomes.
