Location: The Round Table of Grid Epsilon

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Dominion of Bannakaffalatta is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 783 million enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Education, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Defence receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zocci. The average income tax rate is 76%, and even higher for the wealthy. A small but healthy private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

The nation has welcomed its expats back with open arms, racial supremacists indulge their wildest fantasies in cinemas and theatres across the nation, the government recently relinquished its monopoly on the mail service, and all citizens must pass a 'multicultural sensitivity test' to be deemed fit for society. Crime is totally unknown. Bannakaffalatta's national animal is the Elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Quad.

Bannakaffalatta is ranked 23rd in The Round Table of Grid Epsilon and 84,750th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -3 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and