Population | 19.465 billion |
Capital | Thalasse City |
Leader | Leader |
Faith | Peace |
Currency | Flower |
Animal | Radioactive Butterfly |
The Eternal Misfortune of Thalasse is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Leader with a fair hand, and renowned for its ban on automobiles, fear of technology, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 19.465 billion Thalasseans 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.
It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded, outspoken government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Thalasse City. The income tax rate is 100%.
The frighteningly efficient Thalassean economy, worth a remarkable 6,459 trillion Flowers a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an amazing 331,858 Flowers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Exceptionally healthy police officers can sprint after crooks for hours on end, explosive diarrhoea is not just a colorful phrase, charged suspects often have to wait years before the courts have room to judge their trial, and libraries are now installed with jacuzzis and mini-bars. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thalasse's national animal is the Radioactive Butterfly, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Peace.
Thalasse is ranked 62nd in the world and 1st in Pencil Sharpeners Puppet Storage for Most Cultured, scoring 931 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Thalasse, libraries are now installed with jacuzzis and mini-bars.
- : Following new legislation in Thalasse, charged suspects often have to wait years before the courts have room to judge their trial.
- : Following new legislation in Thalasse, explosive diarrhoea is not just a colorful phrase.
- : Following new legislation in Thalasse, exceptionally healthy police officers can sprint after crooks for hours on end.
- : Following new legislation in Thalasse, a byzantine web of conspiracies and secret alliances must be navigated any time legislation is voted upon.
- : Following new legislation in Thalasse, getting an autograph has become harder than ever.
- : Thalasse was reclassified from "Left-wing Utopia" to "Liberal Democratic Socialists".
- : Following new legislation in Thalasse, debates on whether toilet seats should be left up or down are increasingly commonplace.
- : Following new legislation in Thalasse, rebuilding efforts for a recently destroyed cathedral aren't expected to be completed for another century.
- : Following new legislation in Thalasse, hay has been added to school cafeteria menus.