Location: The Bad Place

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The Frightening Red Bandana of Bilge Rat Ronnie is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, ruled by Bilge Rat Ronnie with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 14.226 billion are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, corrupt, pro-business individuals is effectively ruled by the Department of Defence, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and the Environment receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bandanaland. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology industries.

Citizens can be frequently spotted going about their business stark naked, manual labourers must be willing to have cybernetic limbs to get a job, leather-clad individuals can be seen walking their slaves in public parks, and surveillance cameras are banned. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Bilge Rat Ronnie's national animal is the Mangy Scurvy Bilge Rat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Jack Sparrow Worship, and its currency is the assorted pieces of 8 .

Bilge Rat Ronnie is ranked 5th in The Bad Place and 900th in the world for Largest Mining Sector, scoring 16 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and