Location: Australia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Independent Music Promoters of Bogans and Boozers is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its restrictive gun laws. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 17.397 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Education, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wireless Radio. The average income tax rate is 95%. 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.

All citizens must pass a 'multicultural sensitivity test' to be deemed fit for society, the breathalyser pledge is a traditional part of marriages in Bogans and Boozers, citizens applying for their first jobs face fierce competition from the homeless, and badminton was recently banned due to 'unacceptable violence' inherent to the game. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bogans and Boozers's national animal is the Musician, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the honorarium.

Bogans and Boozers is ranked 47th in Australia and 100,159th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -9 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and