Location: the West Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Kingdom of Bidebieta is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The King in The North with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls. Its compassionate population of 2.514 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, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Defence, although Law & Order and Education are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arizgoiti. The average income tax rate is 96%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

People regularly disappear off the streets and all evidence of them is destroyed, the government is spending millions on renovating the public transportation system, newborns are being raised as mindless killing machines, and phone taps are frequently carried out by the police. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bidebieta's national animal is the direwolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is the Cult of the Ancient Gods, and its currency is the new crown.

Bidebieta is ranked 711th in the West Pacific and 20,689th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 2 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and