Population | 5.177 billion |
Capital | Giraffeton City |
Leader | Professional Giraffe |
Currency | Giraffereum |
Animal | Giraffe |
The Federated Giraffe State of Giraffeton is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Professional Giraffe with a fair hand, and notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, vat-grown people, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.177 billion Giraffetonians 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 medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Giraffeton City. The average income tax rate is 66.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Giraffetonian economy, worth 567 trillion Giraffereums a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 109,652 Giraffereums, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
A passport is literally priceless, the comic book series 'Professional Giraffe and the Villainous Corporate Cronies' is a best-seller, teenagers performing appendectomies on their friends has become a popular schoolyard prank, and Giraffeton City spends billions upgrading public transport. Crime is totally unknown. Giraffeton's national animal is the Giraffe, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
Giraffeton is ranked 59,341st in the world and 16th in The Giraffe Federation for Lowest Crime Rates, with 71.87 law-abiding acts per hour.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Giraffeton, Giraffeton City spends billions upgrading public transport.
- : Following new legislation in Giraffeton, teenagers performing appendectomies on their friends has become a popular schoolyard prank.
- : Following new legislation in Giraffeton, the comic book series 'Professional Giraffe and the Villainous Corporate Cronies' is a best-seller.
- : Following new legislation in Giraffeton, a passport is literally priceless.
- : Following new legislation in Giraffeton, party affiliation is just as irrelevant as campaign promises.
- : Giraffeton was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Workforce Participation Rate and the Top 10% for Best Weather, Most Popular Tourist Destinations, and Highest Poor Incomes.
- : Following new legislation in Giraffeton, fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding".
- : Following new legislation in Giraffeton, government bureaucrats shut down teenage yard-raking businesses for being counter-revolutionary.
- : Following new legislation in Giraffeton, cows graze until the wolves come home.
- : Following new legislation in Giraffeton, ad-blocking has been nationalised.