Population | 42.442 billion |
Leader | Star Child |
Currency | Pyramid |
Animal | Unfunky UFO |
The People's Republic of The Crooked Beat is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Star Child with a fair hand, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, complete lack of prisons, and smutty television. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 42.442 billion Crooked Beatians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.
The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded morass — prioritizes Education, with Welfare, Social Policy, and Environment also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Law & Order aren't funded at all. The income tax rate is 100%.
The frighteningly efficient Crooked Beatian economy, worth an astonishing 11,577 trillion Pyramids a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Gambling. Average income is an amazing 272,793 Pyramids, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Flight attendants rip down curtains with revolutionary fervor, things are looking up for patients accidentally prescribed erectile dysfunction medication, the nation has welcomed its expats back with open arms, and scientists earn more grant money for reproducing old experiments than trying anything new. Crime is totally unknown. The Crooked Beat's national animal is the Unfunky UFO, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
The Crooked Beat is ranked 316,006th in the world and 13th in A Modern World for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -27.75 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in The Crooked Beat, scientists earn more grant money for reproducing old experiments than trying anything new.
- : Following new legislation in The Crooked Beat, the nation has welcomed its expats back with open arms.
- : Following new legislation in The Crooked Beat, things are looking up for patients accidentally prescribed erectile dysfunction medication.
- : Following new legislation in The Crooked Beat, flight attendants rip down curtains with revolutionary fervor.
- : Following new legislation in The Crooked Beat, government buildings are being cleansed of anything that might have racist connotations.
- : Following new legislation in The Crooked Beat, traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways.
- : Following new legislation in The Crooked Beat, the police are destroying all photographic evidence of their own existence.
- : Following new legislation in The Crooked Beat, The Crooked Beat recently hosted the least successful trade negotiations since The Phantom Menace.
- : Following new legislation in The Crooked Beat, search-and-rescue organisations are the biggest employer in the country.
- : Following new legislation in The Crooked Beat, national parks have long lines of different gender-specific 'Porta-Pottys'.