Location: Zhaucauozian Friendship

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Ferret in Your Trouserness of Bahgum is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, ruled by The Glorious Leader with an even hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 18.297 billion are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, pro-business individuals is mainly concerned with Law & Order, although Healthcare and Education are secondary priorities. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Gambling industry.

Criminals are thrown to the cart horses to repay their debt to society, vanity is considered the eighth cardinal virtue, university graduates and new home-owners toil in labour camps to work off their debts, and parents must choose their children's names from a government-mandated master list. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bahgum's national animal is the cart horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the eckythump.

Bahgum is ranked 1st in Zhaucauozian Friendship and 620th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 13 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and