Population | 11.605 billion |
Currency | jeffmoss |
Animal | Penguin |
The United States of BLACK HAT is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its absence of drug laws, suspicion of poets, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 11.605 billion Black Hatters are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.
The minute, pro-business government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Administration, with Defense, Education, and Industry also on the agenda, while Spirituality and International Aid receive no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.7%.
The thriving BLACK HATian economy, worth 826 trillion jeffmosses a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Furniture Restoration, and Gambling. Average income is 71,195 jeffmosses, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 284,526 per year while the poor average 11,972, a ratio of 23.8 to 1.
Pet owners must make a payment if their charges leave a deposit, genetic researchers have been expelled, a fashion designer has been arrested for inciting hatred after claiming redheads couldn't pull off vermillion, and the controversial show 'Who Wants to be an Immigrant?' has become wildly popular. Crime is a serious problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. BLACK HAT's national animal is the Penguin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.
BLACK HAT is ranked 249,250th in the world and 12th in Sumerian Coalition for Most Cultured, scoring 63 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : BLACK HAT was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Stationary.
- : BLACK HAT was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Crime Rates.
- : BLACK HAT was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Highest Crime Rates.
- : BLACK HAT was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Stationary.
- : BLACK HAT was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Retail Industry and Highest Unexpected Death Rate.
- : Following new legislation in BLACK HAT, the controversial show 'Who Wants to be an Immigrant?' has become wildly popular.
- : BLACK HAT was reclassified from "Benevolent Dictatorship" to "Compulsory Consumerist State".
- : Following new legislation in BLACK HAT, a fashion designer has been arrested for inciting hatred after claiming redheads couldn't pull off vermillion.
- : Following new legislation in BLACK HAT, genetic researchers have been expelled.
- : Following new legislation in BLACK HAT, pet owners must make a payment if their charges leave a deposit.