Location: A Modern World

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Federation of Bovidia is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Gray Bull with an even hand, and notable for its enforced nudity. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 5.179 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 concentrates mainly on the Environment, although Education and Social Equality are on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 59%, 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.

Organised sports are frowned upon as frivolous, Bovidia's soft-touch approach to diplomacy has made it known as the 'push-over' of the region, Bovidia's schoolchildren are manufactured into a segregated bunch of soldiers, religious zealots, and computer technicians, and record sales of 'child-whacking sticks' have been reported. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is pervasive, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Bovidia's national animal is the abolished long ago, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is a major religion, and its currency is the calorie.

Bovidia is ranked 31st in A Modern World and 100,558th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -10 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and