The Republic of Waiting At The Lights is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its parental licensing program, ban on automobiles, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 5.949 billion Waiting At The Lightsians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.
The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 68.5%.
The frighteningly efficient Waiting At The Lightsian economy, worth 674 trillion bitcoins 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 a large, well-organized black market in Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. 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 impressive 113,450 bitcoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.
The overhead luggage compartment is often full, homeowners are evicted to make way for new runways, some are born loving old plays and some have old plays thrust upon them, and foreign governments are threatened if they so much as mention the word "election". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Waiting At The Lights's national animal is the dolphin, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
Waiting At The Lights is ranked 290,910th in the world and 469th in Stereo Hearts for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -14.97 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.
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Waiting At The Lights was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Beautiful Environments, Largest Black Market, Highest Average Incomes, Most Advanced Public Education, and Most Developed.
- : Following new legislation in Waiting At The Lights, foreign governments are threatened if they so much as mention the word "election".
- : Following new legislation in Waiting At The Lights, some are born loving old plays and some have old plays thrust upon them.
- : Following new legislation in Waiting At The Lights, homeowners are evicted to make way for new runways.
- : Following new legislation in Waiting At The Lights, the overhead luggage compartment is often full.
- : Following new legislation in Waiting At The Lights, national park visitors are reporting a rash of poison ivy sightings.
- : Following new legislation in Waiting At The Lights, only lightning has a chance of striking Leader twice.
- : Following new legislation in Waiting At The Lights, government popup ads are springing up like weeds.
- : Following new legislation in Waiting At The Lights, parents live in fear of governmental 'child protection' squads.
- : Following new legislation in Waiting At The Lights, scavengers with burlap sacks and shovels skulk around graveyards.