{"id":421,"date":"2004-08-17T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-17T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/blog\/?p=421"},"modified":"2004-08-17T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-17T22:45:00","slug":"421","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"109278290544720628\"><span class=\"post\"><strong>The Most Serene Republic of Shets and Giggles<\/strong><br \/><strong><\/strong><br \/>Following a link on Mr. Spencer Watson&#8217;s site <strong>(<\/a><\/strong><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationstates.net\/cgi-bin\/index.cgi\">http:\/\/www.nationstates.net\/cgi-bin\/index.cgi<\/a>), I created a mock nation for some simulation game.<\/p>\n<p>Let me acquaint you with my nation (the computer wrote the description based on my answers to a questionaire. My FAVORITE line is the last line):<\/p>\n<p><strong>Name:<\/strong> The Most Serene Republic of Shets and Giggles<br \/><strong>National Motto:<\/strong> &#8220;Do it like the monkeys.&#8221;<br \/><strong>UN Category:<\/strong> Inoffensive Centrist Democracy<br \/><strong>Civil Rights: <\/strong>Good<br \/><strong>Economy: <\/strong>Reasonable<br \/><strong>Political Freedoms:<\/strong> Excellent<br \/><strong>Location:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationstates.net\/cgi-bin\/index.cgi\/84339\/page=display_region\/region=the_south_pacific\">the South Pacific<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Most Serene Republic of Shets and Giggles is a tiny, devout nation, remarkable for its absence of drug laws. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 5 million have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.<br \/>The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Religion &#038; Spirituality, Law &amp; Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 29%, but much higher for the wealthy. A very small private sector is dominated by the Trout Farming industry.<br \/>Crime is moderate. Shets and Giggles&#8217;s national animal is the volkswagon bus, which frolics freely in the nation&#8217;s many lush forests, and its currency is the children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Most Serene Republic of Shets and GigglesFollowing a link on Mr. Spencer Watson&#8217;s site (http:\/\/www.nationstates.net\/cgi-bin\/index.cgi), I created a mock nation for some simulation game. Let me acquaint you with my nation (the computer wrote the description based on my answers to a questionaire. My FAVORITE line is the last line): Name: The Most Serene [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-humor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sbl5mn-421","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}