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Most Subsidized Industry: 465thMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 507thLargest Mining Sector: 957th
The Daily Wanderings of
Iron Fist Consumerists
Anyone Seen A Carrot?
Influence
Zero
Civil Rights
Rare
Economy
Frightening
Political Freedom
Few

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Featured Hopper

Population6.932 billion

CapitalCarrot City
Leaderthat scwewy wabbit

Currencycarrot
Animalhopper

The Daily Wanderings of Featured Hopper is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by that scwewy wabbit with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, smutty television, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.932 billion Featured Hoppers are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Carrot City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 92.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Featured Hopperian economy, worth a remarkable 1,751 trillion carrots 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. 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 an amazing 252,606 carrots, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,099,742 per year while the poor average 36,724, a ratio of 29.9 to 1.

Science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous, TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, religious bigotry is not allowed but bigotry against theism is encouraged, and students learn how to disarm mines before understanding basic arithmetic. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Featured Hopper's national animal is the hopper, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Featured Hopper is ranked 291,503rd in the world and 19th in The Red Plains for Nicest Citizens, with 0.17 average smiles per day.

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Most Subsidized Industry: 465thMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 507thLargest Mining Sector: 957thLargest Retail Industry: 1,869thMost Corrupt Governments: 2,806thTop
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Most Efficient Economies: 3,385thMost Extensive Public Healthcare: 3,628thMost Armed: 4,604thFattest Citizens: 4,658thLargest Arms Manufacturing Sector: 4,666thLargest Manufacturing Sector: 6,462ndMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 7,344thLargest Governments: 7,388thRudest Citizens: 7,540thMost Advanced Defense Forces: 8,090thHighest Average Tax Rates: 8,552ndMost Devout: 10,191stNudest: 12,470thMost Ignorant Citizens: 12,818thLargest Timber Woodchipping Industry: 14,289thTop
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Lowest Crime Rates: 16,917th
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Greatest Rich-Poor Divides: 1st in the regionLargest Arms Manufacturing Sector: 1st in the regionMost Corrupt Governments: 1st in the regionLargest Retail Industry: 1st in the regionRudest Citizens: 1st in the regionMost Subsidized Industry: 1st in the regionMost Devout: 1st in the regionLargest Timber Woodchipping Industry: 1st in the regionLargest Mining Sector: 1st in the regionLargest Manufacturing Sector: 1st in the regionNudest: 1st in the regionMost Efficient Economies: 1st in the regionMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 1st in the regionMost Armed: 1st in the regionMost Advanced Defense Forces: 1st in the region

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