Location: YBAST

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Fansubbing Empire of Dattebayo is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Lisa with an even hand, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles. Its intelligent population of 13.012 billion are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of the Environment, Education, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of AH-Naruto. The average income tax rate is 19%, but much 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.

Dattebayo's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region, 'A is for Annulment' is a popular children's song, streakers swamp all public events in order to bare it all, and there's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is moderate, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Dattebayo's national animal is the racoon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the ryou.

Dattebayo is ranked 1st in YBAST and 861st in the world for Best Weather, with 296 Metres of Sunlight Above Expected.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and