Location: 10000 Islands

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Anarchy of Blogotopia is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Ding Dong Daddy with a fair hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 15.815 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 Education, Social Welfare, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Blogotopia City. The average income tax rate is 97%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Fewer people are bathing as citizens must show ration stamps before they can turn on their faucets, euthanasia is legal, students in Blogotopia's schools rarely attend their classes, and a crusade against barbaric religious practices has begun. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Blogotopia's national animal is the hepcat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the doobie.

Blogotopia is ranked 2,109th in 10000 Islands and 101,678th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -27 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and