Location: Kramerica

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Failed Pakistani Restaurant of Babu Bhatt is a gargantuan, cultured nation, notable for its ban on automobiles. Its compassionate population of 17.012 billion are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Social Welfare, with areas such as Commerce and Social Equality receiving almost no funds by comparison. The average income tax rate is 82%, and even higher for the wealthy. 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.

Murderers frequently escape punishment by claiming they were protecting their honour, a large concrete wall is being built around the country's borders, the arms industry has been shut down in a surge of pacifism, and sex offenders find themselves 'cut off' from any ability to repeat their crimes. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Babu Bhatt's national animal is the waving finger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the expired visa.

Babu Bhatt is ranked 4th in Kramerica and 96,391st in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -6 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and