Location: Empires of Earth

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Oh Happy Days of Bootskitten is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 11.781 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 the Environment, Education, and Social Welfare. The average income tax rate is 89%, and even higher for the wealthy. 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.

Citizens applying for their first jobs face fierce competition from the homeless, international tensions are high as Bootskitten threatens any government with the audacity to arrest its citizens, heavy industry must go to expensive lengths to dispose of waste, and the government is promoting multicultural values with the new 'Just Be Nice, OK?' initiative. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bootskitten's national animal is the werewolf, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the delv.

Bootskitten is ranked 101st in Empires of Earth and 100,093rd 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