The Grand Duchy of Prize Peach is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 323 million Prize Peachians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and look forward to their next free and open election, to be held on an as-yet unannounced date.
The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 26.0%.
The strong Prize Peachian economy, worth 14.2 trillion Peaches a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Retail, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 43,866 Peaches, with the richest citizens earning 5.0 times as much as the poorest.
Chest pains are considered part of the dining experience in Prize Peachian restaurants, inheritance tax has recently been abolished, college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, and even in the most hardened climate scientists break down at the sound of a single drop of rain. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Prize Peach's national animal is the Peach Ring, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Prize Peach is ranked 251,907th in the world and 201st in Squeaky Squeakers for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -8 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Prize Peach, even in the most hardened climate scientists break down at the sound of a single drop of rain.
- : Following new legislation in Prize Peach, college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys.
- : Following new legislation in Prize Peach, inheritance tax has recently been abolished.
- : Following new legislation in Prize Peach, chest pains are considered part of the dining experience in Prize Peachian restaurants.
- : Following new legislation in Prize Peach, the police have been known to wiretap confessional boxes.
- : Following new legislation in Prize Peach, every day's an auto-de-fé day.
- : Following new legislation in Prize Peach, laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts.
- : Following new legislation in Prize Peach, the children of Prize Peach are often remarked upon for their cheery attitude to extreme violence.
- : Following new legislation in Prize Peach, the government makes bereaved siblings into bereaved orphans.
- : Prize Peach's influence in Squeaky Squeakers rose from "Page" to "Squire".