BEFORE KNOWING WHAT WAS GOING ON VINNY
Population | 10.964 billion |
Currency | franc |
Animal | dove |
The Republic of BEFORE KNOWING WHAT WAS GOING ON VINNY is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 10.964 billion BEFORE KNOWING WHAT WAS GOING ON VINNYians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."
The large, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 50.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The sizeable but stagnant BEFORE KNOWING WHAT WAS GOING ON VINNYian economy, worth 99.0 trillion francs 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 a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Trout Farming, Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Cheese Exports. 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 9,031 francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. BEFORE KNOWING WHAT WAS GOING ON VINNY's national animal is the dove.
BEFORE KNOWING WHAT WAS GOING ON VINNY is ranked 143,862nd in the world and 1,721st in Artificial Solar System for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : BEFORE KNOWING WHAT WAS GOING ON VINNY's influence in Artificial Solar System rose from "Hatchling" to "Newcomer".
- : BEFORE KNOWING WHAT WAS GOING ON VINNY's influence in Artificial Solar System rose from "Unproven" to "Hatchling".
- : BEFORE KNOWING WHAT WAS GOING ON VINNY's influence in Artificial Solar System rose from "Zero" to "Unproven".
- : BEFORE KNOWING WHAT WAS GOING ON VINNY relocated from Osiris to Artificial Solar System.
- : BEFORE KNOWING WHAT WAS GOING ON VINNY applied to join the World Assembly.
- : BEFORE KNOWING WHAT WAS GOING ON VINNY was refounded in Osiris.
- : BEFORE KNOWING WHAT WAS GOING ON VINNY ceased to exist in Balder.
- : BEFORE KNOWING WHAT WAS GOING ON VINNY's influence in Balder rose from "Unproven" to "Hatchling".
- : BEFORE KNOWING WHAT WAS GOING ON VINNY's influence in Balder rose from "Zero" to "Unproven".
- : BEFORE KNOWING WHAT WAS GOING ON VINNY was refounded in Balder.