Population | 20.784 billion |
Capital | Potato Landia |
Leader | Her Eminence The Potato Pope |
Faith | Potato Worship |
Currency | Potato |
Animal | Potato |
The Potato Papacy of Crushita is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Her Eminence The Potato Pope with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, compulsory vegetarianism, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 20.784 billion Potatoes 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Spirituality and Law & Order also on the agenda, while Education and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Potato Landia. The average income tax rate is 96.2%.
The frighteningly efficient Potatoian economy, worth a remarkable 5,786 trillion Potatoes 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, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 278,391 Potatoes, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 805,089 per year while the poor average 76,330, a ratio of 10.5 to 1.
Her Eminence The Potato Pope is too busy listening to praise to get any work done, criminals are really screwed, children fear compulsory visits to their spiritual advisors more than the dentist, and red rinses are frequently applied to grey hair. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. Crushita's national animal is the Potato, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Potato Worship.
Crushita is ranked 16,227th in the world and 1,174th in Lazarus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 92.99 law-abiding acts per hour.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Crushita's influence in Lazarus rose from "Unproven" to "Hatchling".
- : Crushita's influence in Lazarus rose from "Zero" to "Unproven".
- : Crushita altered its national flag.
- : Crushita was refounded in Lazarus.
- : Crushita ceased to exist in The South Pacific.
- : Crushita was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Unexpected Death Rate and the Top 10% for Most Conservative.
- : Crushita's influence in The South Pacific rose from "Zero" to "Unproven".
- : Following new legislation in Crushita, red rinses are frequently applied to grey hair.
- : Following new legislation in Crushita, children fear compulsory visits to their spiritual advisors more than the dentist.
- : Following new legislation in Crushita, criminals are really screwed.