The Beans on Toast of Beans on Toast 42 is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its parental licensing program, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.844 billion Beans on Toast 42ians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.
The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 71.5%.
The frighteningly efficient Beans on Toast 42ian economy, worth 938 trillion Cards a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 137,167 Cards, with the richest citizens earning 5.4 times as much as the poorest.
Stony-faced prosecutors play loud gangster rap music during court proceedings, builders across Beans on Toast 42 are blocked up with orders for new public loos, kilts and cassocks are viewed with suspicion, and international tensions are high as Beans on Toast 42 threatens any government with the audacity to arrest its citizens. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Beans on Toast 42's national animal is the Raven, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.
Beans on Toast 42 is ranked 34,692nd in the world and 315th in Memeland United for Lowest Crime Rates, with 80.12 law-abiding acts per hour.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
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Beans on Toast 42's influence in Memeland United rose from "Shoeshiner" to "Page".
- : Beans on Toast 42 was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Extensive Public Healthcare.
- : Following new legislation in Beans on Toast 42, international tensions are high as Beans on Toast 42 threatens any government with the audacity to arrest its citizens.
- : Following new legislation in Beans on Toast 42, kilts and cassocks are viewed with suspicion.
- : Following new legislation in Beans on Toast 42, builders across Beans on Toast 42 are blocked up with orders for new public loos.
- : Following new legislation in Beans on Toast 42, stony-faced prosecutors play loud gangster rap music during court proceedings.
- : Following new legislation in Beans on Toast 42, lawyers turn down litigation cases and corporate work in order to focus on lucrative public defence work.
- : Following new legislation in Beans on Toast 42, the sun rises an hour later on border communities.
- : Following new legislation in Beans on Toast 42, strict term limits have been applied to all elected offices.
- : Following new legislation in Beans on Toast 42, the family summer vacation has become a thing of the past following the introduction of the year-round school year.