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Largest Black Market: 16,049thHighest Economic Output: 21,743rdMost Eco-Friendly Governments: 22,299th
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Corrupt Dictatorship Well-Meaning Dictatorship
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Economy
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Political Freedom
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Marble Statues

Population17.181 billion

Currencychisel
Animalasian bear

The Community of Marble Statues is a titanic, efficient nation, renowned for its frequent executions, free-roaming dinosaurs, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 17.181 billion Marble Statuesians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 68.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Marble Statuesian economy, worth a remarkable 1,606 trillion chisels 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 Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Gambling. 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 93,527 chisels, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Smiling in public is seen as criminally suspicious behaviour, citizens are permitted to carry concealed handguns, children are often observed making 'sand angels' in bunkers, and former slave owners are now enslaved to basic human rights laws. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Marble Statues's national animal is the asian bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Marble Statues is ranked 236,102nd in the world and 16th in Greece for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring zero on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.

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Highest Economic Output: 21,743rdMost Eco-Friendly Governments: 22,299thMost Subsidized Industry: 22,361stLargest Populations: 23,878thMost Advanced Public Education: 28,873rdLargest Information Technology Sector: 31,819thMost World Assembly Endorsements: 33,045thMost Developed: 33,378th

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Marble Statues was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Developed.
  • : Following new legislation in Marble Statues, former slave owners are now enslaved to basic human rights laws.
  • : Marble Statues was reclassified from "Psychotic Dictatorship" to "Corrupt Dictatorship".
  • : Following new legislation in Marble Statues, children are often observed making 'sand angels' in bunkers.
  • : Following new legislation in Marble Statues, citizens are permitted to carry concealed handguns.
  • : Following new legislation in Marble Statues, smiling in public is seen as criminally suspicious behaviour.
  • : Following new legislation in Marble Statues, this year's televised Budget Forecast has been cancelled because there was already one last year.
  • : Marble Statues was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Black Market.
  • : Following new legislation in Marble Statues, citizens know not to ask what their country can do for them but what they can do as chained slaves for their country.
  • : Following new legislation in Marble Statues, the government is washing its hands of alleged corruption.

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