The Democratic Republic of Countriopia is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its rampant corporate plagiarism, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and national health service. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 24.35 billion Countriopians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.
The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Biseru. The income tax rate is 100%.
The frighteningly efficient Countriopian economy, worth an astonishing 10,342 trillion Rotons 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 Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 424,748 Rotons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Popular cartoon characters frequently appear in government-sponsored PSAs reminding students to say no to drugs, referenda are held for every conceivable government action, criminals and college students are taking an interest in the government's new weed-killing program, and explicit slash fiction is repackaged for kindergarten kids as stories about friends cuddling friends. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Countriopia's national animal is the Countriopian Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Countriopia is ranked 284,326th in the world and 4th in Solidaritat for Most Devout, with 1.15 prayers per hour.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
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Countriopia, explicit slash fiction is repackaged for kindergarten kids as stories about friends cuddling friends.
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Countriopia, criminals and college students are taking an interest in the government's new weed-killing program.
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Countriopia, referenda are held for every conceivable government action.
- : Following new legislation in
Countriopia, popular cartoon characters frequently appear in government-sponsored PSAs reminding students to say no to drugs.
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Countriopia, authorities are looking for a stool pigeon to rat out who is stealing food from pigeon toilets.
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Countriopia, lifelong celibates are surprised to receive government-issue condoms in the post.
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Countriopia, large sections of Countriopia have been named national reserves to protect the native tribes living there.
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Countriopia, intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works.
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Countriopia, spoiler warnings are now given out before political speeches.
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Countriopia, Maxtopian villagers starve by the time Countriopian officials even file the appropriate paperwork needed to help them.