Posted May 31, 2013
==== Overview ====
Civil Rights: Excellent (70)
Economy: Weak (20) [-2]
Political Freedoms: Very Good (68)
The Free Land of Gogan is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 251 million are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.
The enormous, socially-minded government is effectively ruled by the Department of Education, with areas such as Law & Order and Religion & Spirituality receiving almost no funds by comparison. The average income tax rate is 39%, but much higher for the wealthy. A small but healthy private sector is dominated by the Pizza Delivery industry.
Radio shows frequently feature people denouncing religion, marketing departments of corporate giants compete to sponsor little league teams, guns are banned, and organised sports are frowned upon as frivolous. Crime is totally unknown. Gogan's national animal is the Goglodyte, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Gog.
Gogan is ranked 1,813th in The North Pacific and 44,872nd in the world for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 18 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.
==== Issues ====
23 hours ago: Following new legislation in Gogan, organised sports are frowned upon as frivolous.
The overview has been updated following the last decisions made.
Get Teens out of MyFace? (issue 78) (#323)
After the kidnapping, rape, and murder of a young blond girl made national headlines in Gogan, the concerned parenting organization Mothers Against Youth Doing Stupid Stuff (MAYDSS) has raised concerns over the use of social networking sites by the nation's teens.
1: "Teens should not be allowed to use social networking!" cries the girl's mother, Prudence Barry. "Some creep added my little darling as a 'friend' on that awful website, and he used it to get all of her personal information and track her down! Obviously, the only sane course of action is to ban all legal minors from using social networking sites! And don't just stop at social networks: block everything else that MAYDSS doesn't approve of!"
2: "Why that's utterly preposterous!" shouts Luke Zuckermann, founder of MyFace, a popular social networking site. "You can't restrict people like that! Oh, sure, today it's keeping teens from lining my wa- I mean - accessing my website, but tomorrow it's keeping everyone from anywhere the government doesn't like! I say free up the web, and get rid of restrictions!"
3: "You know, there's always a compromise," says local pervert Mohammed Eliot while watching you from a nearby tree. "As I see it, the best way to keep both sides of the argument happy is to remove all restrictions on what adults can view and increase restrictions on minors. But at the same time, lower the age of majority by a lot. What could possibly go wrong?"
4: "What could possibly go wrong, you ask?" panics your paranoid cousin, Lars Dimitrov. "On the internet, nobody knows your actual age. It's a haven for malicious anonymity! Besides, children aren't the only people at risk on the internet. It's full of stalker-rapists and bomb-makers and viruses and sick, depraved porn. We're better off without it."
==== Public announcement ====
Civil Rights: Excellent (70)
Economy: Weak (20) [-2]
Political Freedoms: Very Good (68)
The Free Land of Gogan is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 251 million are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.
The enormous, socially-minded government is effectively ruled by the Department of Education, with areas such as Law & Order and Religion & Spirituality receiving almost no funds by comparison. The average income tax rate is 39%, but much higher for the wealthy. A small but healthy private sector is dominated by the Pizza Delivery industry.
Radio shows frequently feature people denouncing religion, marketing departments of corporate giants compete to sponsor little league teams, guns are banned, and organised sports are frowned upon as frivolous. Crime is totally unknown. Gogan's national animal is the Goglodyte, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Gog.
Gogan is ranked 1,813th in The North Pacific and 44,872nd in the world for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 18 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.
==== Issues ====
23 hours ago: Following new legislation in Gogan, organised sports are frowned upon as frivolous.
The overview has been updated following the last decisions made.
Get Teens out of MyFace? (issue 78) (#323)
After the kidnapping, rape, and murder of a young blond girl made national headlines in Gogan, the concerned parenting organization Mothers Against Youth Doing Stupid Stuff (MAYDSS) has raised concerns over the use of social networking sites by the nation's teens.
1: "Teens should not be allowed to use social networking!" cries the girl's mother, Prudence Barry. "Some creep added my little darling as a 'friend' on that awful website, and he used it to get all of her personal information and track her down! Obviously, the only sane course of action is to ban all legal minors from using social networking sites! And don't just stop at social networks: block everything else that MAYDSS doesn't approve of!"
2: "Why that's utterly preposterous!" shouts Luke Zuckermann, founder of MyFace, a popular social networking site. "You can't restrict people like that! Oh, sure, today it's keeping teens from lining my wa- I mean - accessing my website, but tomorrow it's keeping everyone from anywhere the government doesn't like! I say free up the web, and get rid of restrictions!"
3: "You know, there's always a compromise," says local pervert Mohammed Eliot while watching you from a nearby tree. "As I see it, the best way to keep both sides of the argument happy is to remove all restrictions on what adults can view and increase restrictions on minors. But at the same time, lower the age of majority by a lot. What could possibly go wrong?"
4: "What could possibly go wrong, you ask?" panics your paranoid cousin, Lars Dimitrov. "On the internet, nobody knows your actual age. It's a haven for malicious anonymity! Besides, children aren't the only people at risk on the internet. It's full of stalker-rapists and bomb-makers and viruses and sick, depraved porn. We're better off without it."
==== Public announcement ====