Location: Osiris

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United Feifdoms of Badgaskula is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by The President and High Council with a fair hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.879 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Education, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Anacrya. The average income tax rate is 79%, and even higher for the wealthy. An almost nonexistent private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

The latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, the nation has opened its arms to an influx of refugees, prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators, and retirement homes are often fitted with luxurious suites. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Badgaskula's national animal is the Badger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Kazi.

Badgaskula is ranked 576th in Osiris and 21,196th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 2 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and