The Twenty-Eight of 28 is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its prohibition of alcohol, enslaved workforce, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 24.568 billion 28ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."
It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defense, Social Policy, and Education. The average income tax rate is 94.2%.
The frighteningly efficient 28ian economy, worth a remarkable 3,419 trillion Golds a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, extremely specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an impressive 139,190 Golds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.
Nature magazines featuring stick insects on their covers are sometimes mistaken for fashion magazines, 50% of adverts on children's television are for clothes made of cotton wool, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, and muscular women are banned from competing in sporting competitions. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. 28's national animal is the Elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
28 is ranked 323,885th in the world and 119th in The Hole To Hide In for Nicest Citizens, with 0.51 average smiles per day.
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Most Recent Government Activity:
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28, muscular women are banned from competing in sporting competitions.
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28, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public.
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28 was reclassified from "Authoritarian Democracy" to "Psychotic Dictatorship".
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28, 50% of adverts on children's television are for clothes made of cotton wool.
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28, nature magazines featuring stick insects on their covers are sometimes mistaken for fashion magazines.
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28, serial killers are the country's biggest import.
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28, political commentators say that Leader's fruitcake plans are about to go pear-shaped.
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28, all telephone traffic is monitored for 'national security reasons'.
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28, school teachers check the staff room for hidden webcams before complaining about rebellious students.
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28, park rangers perform full-body searches on suspected fungus smugglers.