Population | 5.072 billion |
Currency | Satire |
Animal | Satyr |
The Words of Jonathan Swift is a colossal, safe nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, parental licensing program, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 5.072 billion Jonathan Swiftians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.
The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 52.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The very strong Jonathan Swiftian economy, worth 391 trillion Satires 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, fairly diversified black market in Tourism, Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. 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 77,196 Satires, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.
Tie-dye has been outlawed for being 'too occult', fashion models are guaranteed to be 100% genuinely as anorexic as they appear on magazine covers, international tensions are high as Jonathan Swift threatens any government with the audacity to arrest its citizens, and there is a 'turn around' sign at every border entrance. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Jonathan Swift's national animal is the Satyr, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Jonathan Swift is ranked 58,756th in the world and 3rd in The Cuckoos Egg for Most Beautiful Environments, with 649.8 pounds of wildlife per square mile.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Jonathan Swift was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Black Market.
- : Jonathan Swift was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Patriotic.
- : Jonathan Swift was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Patriotic.
- : Jonathan Swift's influence in The Cuckoos Egg rose from "Negotiator" to "Contender".
- : Jonathan Swift's influence in The Cuckoos Egg rose from "Auxiliary" to "Negotiator".
- : Jonathan Swift was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Devout.
- : Jonathan Swift was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Devout.
- : Jonathan Swift was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Devout.
- : Jonathan Swift's influence in The Cuckoos Egg rose from "Ambassador" to "Auxiliary".
- : Jonathan Swift's influence in The Cuckoos Egg fell from "Auxiliary" to "Ambassador".