The Loving Couple of -Art-F4n is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Morton with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, rampant corporate plagiarism, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 4.862 billion -Art-F4nians 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, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bonesborough. The average income tax rate is 44.9%.
The frighteningly efficient -Art-F4nian economy, worth 540 trillion snails a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 111,203 snails, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.9 times as much as the poorest.
People invite random old men into their homes to play with their kids, women complaining about lack of opportunity are told to "man up", t-shirts displaying a photo of Morton performing the Full-Monty are selling out, and religious citizens are closely monitored for signs of self-harm. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. -Art-F4n's national animal is the owl, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Cards.
-Art-F4n is ranked 63,483rd in the world and 21st in Thegye for Lowest Crime Rates, with 71.12 law-abiding acts per hour.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
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-Art-F4n, religious citizens are closely monitored for signs of self-harm.
- : Following new legislation in -Art-F4n, t-shirts displaying a photo of Morton performing the Full-Monty are selling out.
- : Following new legislation in -Art-F4n, women complaining about lack of opportunity are told to "man up".
- : Following new legislation in -Art-F4n, people invite random old men into their homes to play with their kids.
- : Following new legislation in -Art-F4n, supermarket milk is a shear-thickening fluid that can stop small-caliber bullets.
- : Following new legislation in -Art-F4n, Max Barry is this year's Miss -Art-F4n.
- : Following new legislation in -Art-F4n, the government awards prizes to television shows featuring stereotype-breaking minority roles.
- : Following new legislation in -Art-F4n, young men in tiny bikinis draw neither comment nor stares on the morning commute.
- : -Art-F4n was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry.
- : Following new legislation in -Art-F4n, young people never forget their first roommate — no matter how much counselling they have.