The Republic of Gimmick Puppet Giant Grinder is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its daily referendums, compulsory military service, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 5.694 billion Gimmick Puppet Giant Grinderians 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 83.8%.
The frighteningly efficient Gimmick Puppet Giant Grinderian economy, worth 665 trillion Cards a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Basket Weaving, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 116,948 Cards, with the richest citizens earning 5.9 times as much as the poorest.
Anyone who sneezes at border crossings is turned away, more sidewalk is dedicated to animals than people, understaffed slavers offer highballs when asked to 'pass the screwdriver' during household maintenance, and rural communities are all but disenfranchised as politicians focus all their attention on winning the deciding urban votes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gimmick Puppet Giant Grinder's national animal is the Kuriboh, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Gimmick Puppet Giant Grinder is ranked 329,708th in the world and 4,157th in Suspicious for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -10.43 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
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Gimmick Puppet Giant Grinder was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Conservative.
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Gimmick Puppet Giant Grinder, rural communities are all but disenfranchised as politicians focus all their attention on winning the deciding urban votes.
- : Following new legislation in
Gimmick Puppet Giant Grinder, understaffed slavers offer highballs when asked to 'pass the screwdriver' during household maintenance.
- : Following new legislation in
Gimmick Puppet Giant Grinder, more sidewalk is dedicated to animals than people.
- : Following new legislation in
Gimmick Puppet Giant Grinder, anyone who sneezes at border crossings is turned away.
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Gimmick Puppet Giant Grinder, Moby Dick can only be sold by pornographers.
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Gimmick Puppet Giant Grinder was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Lowest Crime Rates and Highest Average Tax Rates.
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Gimmick Puppet Giant Grinder, politicians are battling inequality by declaring themselves better than everyone else.
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Gimmick Puppet Giant Grinder, cotton candy made from genuine cotton cellulose doesn't quite satisfy.
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Gimmick Puppet Giant Grinder, Members of Parliament are often found living in cardboard boxes.