Location: Bucketheadland

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Chicken Factory of Bucketheadland is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Leader with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 20.147 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, the Environment, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 99%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

The government seeks peaceful forum with terrorists, the government is pouring money into 'Operation Enduring Democracy', mining safety laws are often more expensive than what's being mined, and the government is promoting multicultural values with the new 'Just Be Nice, OK?' initiative. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bucketheadland's national animal is the fried chicken, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the kfc.

Bucketheadland is ranked 4th in Bucketheadland and 96,171st in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -6 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and