SchutteGod
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 Your guess is as good as ours.
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 Lawrence Welk Village, the nation's capital
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| Region | Lavinium | ||
| Capital | Lawrence Welk Village | ||
| Demonym | Schuttean | ||
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| - | Ruler | Mrs. Schutte | |
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| - | 2015 estimate | 29,857,541 | |
| Currency | disc | ||
The Autocratic Freak Show of SchutteGod is a landlocked country located somewhere in Lavinium, although since the Schuttean civilization has yet to make significant advances in geography or cartography, no one is quite sure where.[1] Er...
A small and unremarkable benevolent autocracy, SchutteGod is chiefly known for its minor role in crafting international law. It authored the Fairness and Equality Act at the United Nations, and the spectacular debacle of Sentient Rights Act at the successor organization, the World Assembly.
The country's hard-working soda-producers are led by Mrs. Schutte, their crazy old aunt in the attic, who rarely is seen in public, but whose terrible shrieking voice can still heard throughout Lawrence Welk Village (the nation's capital) from time to time, with or without the aid of a loudspeaker. Mrs. Schutte seized power in 1989 and immediately deployed her loyal army of Shemps to tighten her grip on the nation: these include Shemp #2, the interior minister; Shemp #4, the foreign minister; and the now-institutionalized Shemp #3, former ambassador to the UN/WA, who is expected to make a full recovery after a slight crack-up over sentient rights.
Mrs. Schutte's subjects, though reasonably well-off, can count on no government hand-outs under any circumstance, and all male citizens are drafted at age 17 to serve a mandatory two-year term of military service. The people vote for their parliament in mostly free and democratic elections, though the results are often rigged, Mrs. Schutte maintains the right to refuse to seat any elected deputy, and she appoints the prime minister and can dismiss him at any time. The current prime minister is Shemp #1.
