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Largest Soda Pop Sector: 6,412thLargest Retail Industry: 6,596thHighest Disposable Incomes: 8,237th
The Community of
Corporate Bordello Patriotic Business Zone
Smell my toes!
Influence
Apprentice
Region
Civil Rights
Very Good
Economy
Frightening
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Toe-Jam

Population10.844 billion

CapitalSmelly Toe
LeaderBig Toe
FaithPodophilia

CurrencyNail Clipping
AnimalToenail Fungus

The Community of Toe-Jam is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Big Toe with a fair hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, free-roaming dinosaurs, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 10.844 billion Toe-Jamians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Smelly Toe. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Toe-Jamian economy, worth a remarkable 1,149 trillion Nail Clippings a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 106,010 Nail Clippings, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 366,834 per year while the poor average 22,385, a ratio of 16.4 to 1.

Legal contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on, political detractors refer to Big Toe as 'that Bigtopian puppet', intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works, and Tesco was recently named as the new national treasurer. Crime is moderate, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Toe-Jam's national animal is the Toenail Fungus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Podophilia.

Toe-Jam is ranked 148,446th in the world and 13th in Stubby Toe for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 774.31 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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Largest Soda Pop Sector: 6,412thLargest Retail Industry: 6,596thHighest Disposable Incomes: 8,237thLowest Overall Tax Burden: 8,908thLargest Publishing Industry: 9,685thMost Cheerful Citizens: 14,799thTop
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Most Politically Apathetic Citizens: 15,716thLargest Cheese Export Sector: 17,339thHighest Wealthy Incomes: 24,958thMost Cultured: 26,781stHighest Food Quality: 30,350thHighest Drug Use: 30,383rd
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Most Efficient Economies: 1st in the regionLargest Soda Pop Sector: 1st in the regionHighest Drug Use: 1st in the regionMost Scientifically Advanced: 1st in the regionLowest Overall Tax Burden: 1st in the regionRudest Citizens: 1st in the regionHighest Average Incomes: 1st in the regionMost Developed: 1st in the regionMost Politically Free: 1st in the regionLargest Publishing Industry: 1st in the regionLargest Retail Industry: 1st in the regionMost World Assembly Endorsements: 1st in the regionHighest Economic Output: 1st in the regionHighest Wealthy Incomes: 1st in the regionLargest Cheese Export Sector: 1st in the regionSmartest Citizens: 1st in the regionHighest Disposable Incomes: 1st in the regionMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 1st in the regionMost Cheerful Citizens: 1st in the regionLargest Populations: 1st in the regionGreatest Rich-Poor Divides: 1st in the regionTop
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Highest Workforce Participation Rate: 2nd in the regionLargest Information Technology Sector: 2nd in the regionHighest Food Quality: 2nd in the regionHighest Crime Rates: 2nd in the regionLargest Gambling Industry: 2nd in the regionMost Advanced Public Education: 2nd in the regionMost Pro-Market: 2nd in the regionMost Cultured: 2nd in the region

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Toe-Jam's influence in Stubby Toe rose from "Squire" to "Apprentice".
  • : Toe-Jam's influence in Stubby Toe rose from "Page" to "Squire".
  • : Toe-Jam's influence in Stubby Toe rose from "Shoeshiner" to "Page".
  • : Toe-Jam's influence in Stubby Toe rose from "Sprat" to "Shoeshiner".
  • : Toe-Jam's influence in Stubby Toe rose from "Minnow" to "Sprat".
  • : Toe-Jam's influence in Stubby Toe rose from "Zero" to "Minnow".
  • : Toe-Jam lodged a message on the Stubby Toe Regional Message Board.
  • : Toe-Jam relocated from Toeland to Stubby Toe.
  • : Following new legislation in Toe-Jam, Tesco was recently named as the new national treasurer.
  • : Following new legislation in Toe-Jam, intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works.

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