Location: Europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Free Land of Boo is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by The Caribou with a fair hand, and notable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 1.285 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Defence. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Honey Bee. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 67%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

Welfare funding has recently gone through the roof, the new 'Things We Stole From Other Countries' exhibition at the National Museum of Antiquities is a hit, the study of medicine is popular throughout Boo, and nude art is becoming wildly popular. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown. Boo's national animal is the Nyan Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is The Nyanic Faith, and its currency is the bob.

Boo is ranked 351st in Europe and 84,373rd 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