The Free Republic of Mother Earth is progressing...
Civil Rights: World Benchmark
Economy: Basket Case
Political Freedoms: Excellent
(What a shocker.)
Location: the Pacific
The Free Republic of Mother Earth is a large, safe nation, renowned for its absence of drug laws. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 26 million enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level social equality free of the usual accompanying government corruption.
The government -- a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded morass -- juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 44%, but much higher for the wealthy. A tiny private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.
Organ donation rates have hit a new low, the tenet of free speech is held dear, same-sex marriages are increasingly common, and Mother Earth's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region. Crime is totally unknown. Mother Earth's national animal is the Dominatrix, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the plankton.
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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet