The Holiest of the Holy Lands of Deep South Borland is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by His Supreme Holy Eminence with an even hand, and notable for its deadly medical pandemics, complete lack of prisons, and aversion to nipples. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 28.811 billion Deep South Borlandeese are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.
The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Environment, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sacrosanct City. The average income tax rate is 93.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The large but stagnant Deep South Borlandite economy, worth 191 trillion Sacraments a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Basket Weaving industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration. Average income is 6,631 Sacraments, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Ritual mummification is making a comeback, party affiliation is just as irrelevant as campaign promises, relations with Dàguó have warmed from frosty to chilly, and a well-funded social safety net protects the unfortunate. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Deep South Borland's national animal is the Lamb, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Truest Fairy Tale Ever Told.
Deep South Borland is ranked 104,160th in the world and 35th in Wysteria for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 863.01 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.
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Most Recent Government Activity:
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Deep South Borland, a well-funded social safety net protects the unfortunate.
- : Following new legislation in Deep South Borland, relations with Dàguó have warmed from frosty to chilly.
- : Following new legislation in Deep South Borland, party affiliation is just as irrelevant as campaign promises.
- : Following new legislation in Deep South Borland, ritual mummification is making a comeback.
- : Deep South Borland was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Authoritarian.
- : Following new legislation in Deep South Borland, the space program has been reduced to His Supreme Holy Eminence's nephew playing with a cardboard space shuttle.
- : Following new legislation in Deep South Borland, Rupert Bear is considered to be the most risqué TV programme in Deep South Borland.
- : Following new legislation in Deep South Borland, people have to sneak out of the country in order to have sex.
- : Following new legislation in Deep South Borland, crop circles are intently studied by investigators with questionable merits.
- : Following new legislation in Deep South Borland, conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings.
