“Pegleg, be a good boy and go outside and pillage.”
Overview:
The Pirate Nurturing Motherhood of Peglegs Mom is a colossal, safe nation, notable for its zero percent divorce rate, anti-smoking policies, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 5.272 billion Pirates 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 tiny, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.2%.
The all-consuming Peglegs Mom economy, worth 552 trillion Dubloons a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Gambling. Average income is an impressive 104,866 Dubloons, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 556,790 per year while the poor average 10,434, a ratio of 53.4 to 1.
Billions of Dubloons are being blown on orbital weapons development, roads are often attended by round-the-clock construction crews, eight year-olds with lemonade stands have been known to be locked up on charges of embezzlement, and military spending is on the increase. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. Peglegs Mom's national animal is the Scurvy Dog, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.