Location: Planet X

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Rooty Tooty Fresh Fruitiness of Boodonia is a gargantuan, genial nation, renowned for its compulsory vegetarianism. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 18.23 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 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 Picayune. The average income tax rate is 100%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Unstable couples are known to break up over which one gets parental leave, the government is giving peace a chance, businesses that prove successful are immediately broken up, and all beauty contests have been banned. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Boodonia's national animal is the Great Tit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the quatloo.

Boodonia is ranked 19th in Planet X and 101,539th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -20 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and