The Federal Republic of TC 43 is a huge, safe nation, notable for its parental licensing program, avant-garde cinema, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 593 million TC 43ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.
The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 22.4%.
The very strong TC 43ian economy, worth 45.4 trillion IUDS a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Automobile Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 76,625 IUDS, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 283,021 per year while the poor average 14,629, a ratio of 19.3 to 1.
Sex changes are routinely performed at TC 43's hospitals, the state is footing the bill for billionaires' lawyers, wildlife near farms is slowly becoming extinct, and the dartboard at the TC 43ian Cancer Research Charity bears a picture of Leader's face. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. TC 43's national animal is the dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.
TC 43 is ranked 263,415th in the world and 293rd in Passacaglia for Most Primitive, scoring -140.56 on the Scary Big Number Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : TC 43 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Compassionate Citizens.
- : Following new legislation in TC 43, the dartboard at the TC 43ian Cancer Research Charity bears a picture of Leader's face.
- : Following new legislation in TC 43, wildlife near farms is slowly becoming extinct.
- : Following new legislation in TC 43, the state is footing the bill for billionaires' lawyers.
- : Following new legislation in TC 43, sex changes are routinely performed at TC 43's hospitals.
- : Following new legislation in TC 43, citizens wishing to be parents must undertake a series of gruelling tests to evaluate their capabilities.
- : Following new legislation in TC 43, the question "please would you...?" is usually laden with passive aggression.
- : Following new legislation in TC 43, roads are often attended by round-the-clock construction crews.
- : Following new legislation in TC 43, prisoners work-share to cut down rising costs of keeping them in jail.
- : Following new legislation in TC 43, officials pull all-nighters to check immigrants for potential links to terrorists.
