Location: Texas

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Holy Empire of Dogbreathistan is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Leader with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 7.012 billion are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The small, pro-business government devotes most of its attentions to Defence, with areas such as Social Equality and Social Welfare receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Couch. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, followed by Information Technology and Gambling.

The 'kind of scrawny' 500 meter hurdle is a popular event, the government has taken a 'sort it out yourselves' approach to fighting malaria, healthcare funding has been cut, and citizens receive notices of disenfranchisement along with their parking tickets. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling. Dogbreathistan's national animal is the Dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Dog Poop.

Dogbreathistan is ranked 146th in Texas and 120,556th in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 35 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and