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Highest Unexpected Death Rate: 12,320thMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 30,826th
The Amusing Ditties of
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Parody Songs

Population2.079 billion

CapitalAccordianland

CurrencyLaughs
AnimalFunny Creature

The Amusing Ditties of Parody Songs is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its pith helmet sales, ubiquitous missile silos, and zero percent divorce rate. The compassionate, devout population of 2.079 billion Parody Songsians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Accordianland. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 63.9%.

The powerhouse Parody Songsian economy, worth 166 trillion Laughs a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 80,295 Laughs, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 231,416 per year while the poor average 22,121, a ratio of 10.5 to 1.

Tree farms across the nation are overrun by clipboard-wielding biologists, politicians have tenure, aristocratic family trees are beginning to resemble tumbleweeds, and reports of arson have doubled since the introduction of a privatised fire protection service. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Parody Songs's national animal is the Funny Creature, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Parody Songs is ranked 254,553rd in the world and 2nd in Weird Al for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -7.35 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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Highest Unexpected Death Rate: 12,320thTop
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Most Advanced Law Enforcement: 30,826th

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Following new legislation in Parody Songs, reports of arson have doubled since the introduction of a privatised fire protection service.
  • : Following new legislation in Parody Songs, aristocratic family trees are beginning to resemble tumbleweeds.
  • : Following new legislation in Parody Songs, politicians have tenure.
  • : Following new legislation in Parody Songs, tree farms across the nation are overrun by clipboard-wielding biologists.
  • : Following new legislation in Parody Songs, rich people sell their mansions to pay for endless rows of mobile homes.
  • : Following new legislation in Parody Songs, veteran cops reminisce over their heavy armor days.
  • : Following new legislation in Parody Songs, renewable energy projects have ground to a halt.
  • : Following new legislation in Parody Songs, men are enrolling into lady etiquette courses.
  • : Following new legislation in Parody Songs, the latest guided missile cruiser "Ship-1642" has received precisely zero column inches in the press.
  • : Following new legislation in Parody Songs, Leader reduces citizens' commute times by giving away their homes.

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