Location: Balder

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Head Embassy of Blouman Empire is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its anti-smoking policies. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 8.3 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.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Religion & Spirituality, and Social Equality. The average income tax rate is 23%. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Pizza Delivery.

College students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, smoking is banned in public areas, postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation, and a crusade against barbaric religious practices has begun. Crime is a serious problem. Blouman Empire's national animal is the Yellow Headed Eagle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Herzog.

Blouman Empire is ranked 798th in Balder and 47,831st in the world for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring 0 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and