Location: Zhaucauozian Friendship

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Randomly Relevant Ratbags of Ardchoille is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Dicey Reilly with an even hand, and notable for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 17.651 billion 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ardrigh. The average income tax rate is 98%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

The airship business has been driven out of the country by strict regulations and high fines, most citizens in Ardchoille are abject pyrophobes after extremely graphic pamphlets were mailed nationwide by the government, bizarre-looking creatures called 'domestic catdogs' dominate wildlife preserves, and the nation is currently revamping its entire education system. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ardchoille's national animal is the domestic cat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Felinitous Wicca, and its currency is the brass razoo.

Ardchoille is ranked 2nd in Zhaucauozian Friendship and 1,440th in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 33 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and