The Kingdom of Bowcombe is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by King Baldred with an even hand, and remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 14.951 billion Bowcombeans 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.
The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lukely. The average income tax rate is 75.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The thriving Bowcombean economy, worth a remarkable 1,169 trillion vects a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 78,197 vects, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Psychiatrists bizarrely accompany King Baldred to meetings with foreign heads of state, the nation's taxpayers pay for foreign governments' extravagances, college athletes are arrested for selling lemonade, and sniffer dogs are trained to follow clouds of fruity-smelling vapor. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bowcombe's national animal is the cobra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is pagan.
Bowcombe is ranked 8,842nd in the world and 8th in Vectis for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 1,960.59 on the Clooney Contribution Index.
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Bowcombe was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, Most Inclusive, Highest Food Quality, and Most Stationary and the Top 10% for Most Advanced Public Education.
- : Bowcombe was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Cheerful Citizens.
- : Following new legislation in Bowcombe, sniffer dogs are trained to follow clouds of fruity-smelling vapor.
- : Following new legislation in Bowcombe, college athletes are arrested for selling lemonade.
- : Following new legislation in Bowcombe, the nation's taxpayers pay for foreign governments' extravagances.
- : Following new legislation in Bowcombe, psychiatrists bizarrely accompany King Baldred to meetings with foreign heads of state.
- : Following new legislation in Bowcombe, school history books often refer to King Baldred as "that imperialist pig dog".
- : Following new legislation in Bowcombe, road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans.
- : Bowcombe lodged a message on the Vectis Regional Message Board.
- : Following new legislation in Bowcombe, would-be emigrants are told "abandon all hope all ye who would exit here".
