Postby Ellimist » Mon Aug 14, 2006 12:31 pm
I'm already in a region, but here's my nation:
The People's Republic of Bertrandium is a huge, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 519 million are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.
It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Social Welfare. The average income tax rate is 100%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising fourteen-year-old boys selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.
Citizens recently voted in favour of declaring bubblewrap an 'abomination of nature', the police have reaffirmed their tough stance on drugs, people who are terrified of needles are torn between their phobia and free health care, and the sound of wooden legs echo throughout Bertrandium after the recent introduction of the Foot Tax. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bertrandium's national animal is the belly-ruffled grunting, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the teapot.
Bertrandium is ranked 1st in the region and 15,299th in the world for Best Weather.
This book offers Intelligent Design as an explanation for life on
Earth. Although this book has a really cute animal on its cover, the
author is a lunatic with a faith-based approach to logic. Please
consider the book with an open mind, then quickly move your
children to a different school district.