Nation/Greater Sicilian Union

The Federal Republic of Greater Sicilian Union is a very large, genial nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 108 million Sicilians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 16.6%.

The all-consuming Sicilian economy, worth 10.8 trillion lire a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Trout Farming, and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 100,392 lire, with the richest citizens earning 6.6 times as much as the poorest.

Signatures have been replaced with illegible scribbles, stealing from a clothesline is a serious offence, traffic cops spend most of their work-hours calculating citizens' monthly income, and large-girthed charity workers assign themselves healthy wages for their work with starving children. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Greater Sicilian Union's national animal is the goat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Greater Sicilian Union is ranked 25,851st in the world and 2nd in Victorian States for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 13,821.09 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.