Population | 10.72 billion |
Capital | Whimsy |
Leader | Dawn |
Faith | Bokonon |
Currency | sand dollar |
Animal | mermaid |
The Isles of Caprice and Vagary is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Dawn with a fair hand, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, daily referendums, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 10.72 billion Vagrants love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.
The relatively small, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Whimsy. The average income tax rate is 56.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Capricious economy, worth a remarkable 2,771 trillion sand dollars a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 258,570 sand dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Citizens with artificial limbs are forbidden to serve as beauty pageant judges, government solves problems by tossing money at the nearest geek, religious terrorism is considered to be an Act of God by insurance companies, and one-man canoes fitted with the latest tracking technology leave no room for one man. Crime is totally unknown. Caprice and Vagary's national animal is the mermaid, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Bokonon.
Caprice and Vagary is ranked 310,569th in the world and 12,871st in Lazarus for Most Ignorant Citizens, with 0.44 missed references per hour.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Caprice and Vagary, one-man canoes fitted with the latest tracking technology leave no room for one man.
- : Following new legislation in Caprice and Vagary, religious terrorism is considered to be an Act of God by insurance companies.
- : Following new legislation in Caprice and Vagary, government solves problems by tossing money at the nearest geek.
- : Following new legislation in Caprice and Vagary, citizens with artificial limbs are forbidden to serve as beauty pageant judges.
- : Following new legislation in Caprice and Vagary, the horniness of the great-horned mermaid is considered a national priority.
- : Following new legislation in Caprice and Vagary, the government is constantly producing new maps to accommodate the continual renaming of cities.
- : Following new legislation in Caprice and Vagary, TV coverage of music festivals consists mostly of backstage interviews.
- : Following new legislation in Caprice and Vagary, officials pull all-nighters to check immigrants for potential links to terrorists.
- : Following new legislation in Caprice and Vagary, the government is funding experimental battery technology while the power grid continues to crumble.
- : Following new legislation in Caprice and Vagary, voting is voluntary.