Population | 35.314 billion |
Capital | BlessedCity |
Leader | MrSaint |
Faith | Atheism |
Currency | blessing |
Animal | church owl |
The Archduke of Blessing is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by MrSaint with an iron fist, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, state-planned economy, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 35.314 billion Blessingians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."
The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of BlessedCity. The average income tax rate is 86.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Blessingian economy, worth a remarkable 3,284 trillion blessings a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Gambling, Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 93,015 blessings, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.
The nanny industry has had a boom after maternity leave was recently banned, the government is busy chasing ghosts, they say marriage really does shorten your life, and people stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Blessing's national animal is the church owl, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Atheism.
Blessing is ranked 950th in the world and 20th in Nederland for Most Stationary, with 4,793.66359872 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Blessing, people stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating.
- : Blessing was reclassified from "Iron Fist Consumerists" to "Psychotic Dictatorship".
- : Following new legislation in Blessing, they say marriage really does shorten your life.
- : Following new legislation in Blessing, the government is busy chasing ghosts.
- : Following new legislation in Blessing, the nanny industry has had a boom after maternity leave was recently banned.
- : Following new legislation in Blessing, lonely citizens sit in phone booths talking with the operators.
- : Blessing was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Advanced Public Transport.
- : Blessing was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Valuable International Artwork.
- : Blessing was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Avoided.
- : Blessing was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Avoided.