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Highest Wealthy Incomes: 445thGreatest Rich-Poor Divides: 1,184thLargest Pizza Delivery Sector: 2,217th
The Republic of
Corporate Police State Halliburton
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Influence
Powerbroker
Region
Civil Rights
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Economy
Frightening
Political Freedom
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Please work for us

Population3.924 billion

CapitalGrise-Rupert's Land

Currencyused coupons
Animalgenius

The Republic of Please work for us is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, anti-smoking policies, and digital currency. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 3.924 billion Please work for usians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Grise-Rupert's Land. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 44.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Please work for usian economy, worth a remarkable 1,009 trillion used coupons a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 257,246 used coupons, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,189,544 per year while the poor average 5,375, a ratio of 407 to 1.

Agricultural employees work for peanuts, bedknobs and broomsticks are often seen flying through the air, people say that cubists are rubbish because they can't draw faces, and loss of the ability to speak is a common affliction of the elderly. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Please work for us's national animal is the genius, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Please work for us is ranked 113,124th in the world and 4th in Aspen for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 2,515.24 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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Highest Wealthy Incomes: 445thGreatest Rich-Poor Divides: 1,184thLargest Pizza Delivery Sector: 2,217thMost Valuable International Artwork: 2,337thLargest Soda Pop Sector: 2,779thFattest Citizens: 2,891stLargest Retail Industry: 3,297thTop
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Most Armed: 3,497thHighest Disposable Incomes: 3,596thLargest Automobile Manufacturing Sector: 4,071stMost Scientifically Advanced: 4,153rdMost Efficient Economies: 4,251stLargest Mining Sector: 4,416thHighest Average Incomes: 5,747thLargest Manufacturing Sector: 5,903rdMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 6,079thLargest Timber Woodchipping Industry: 6,330thMost Cultured: 6,388thMost Subsidized Industry: 6,512thMost Corrupt Governments: 7,158thLargest Information Technology Sector: 8,153rdLargest Arms Manufacturing Sector: 8,620thRudest Citizens: 9,945thMost Conservative: 9,982ndMost Advanced Defense Forces: 10,918thMost Patriotic: 10,950thSmartest Citizens: 12,754thLargest Agricultural Sector: 13,648thLargest Black Market: 13,987thLargest Governments: 14,611thLargest Furniture Restoration Industry: 14,624thLargest Insurance Industry: 14,965thTop
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Largest Basket Weaving Sector: 17,010thLargest Publishing Industry: 17,750thMost Advanced Public Education: 30,969thMost Developed: 32,752nd

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Please work for us was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Largest Retail Industry and the Top 10% for Most Developed.
  • : Please work for us was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry.
  • : Following new legislation in Please work for us, loss of the ability to speak is a common affliction of the elderly.
  • : Following new legislation in Please work for us, people say that cubists are rubbish because they can't draw faces.
  • : Following new legislation in Please work for us, bedknobs and broomsticks are often seen flying through the air.
  • : Following new legislation in Please work for us, agricultural employees work for peanuts.
  • : Following new legislation in Please work for us, formerly fertile fields are being leached dry of nutrients by intensive farming.
  • : Please work for us was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Black Market.
  • : Following new legislation in Please work for us, nothing is beneath the government after it has extracted all the oil.
  • : Following new legislation in Please work for us, college athletes are arrested for selling lemonade.

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