Location: The East Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Exploding Waistline of Eat-All-You-Can is a massive, devout nation, ruled by Ze Wafer Thin Mint of Creosote with an iron fist, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 3.614 billion are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Defence, with areas such as Social Welfare and Social Equality receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Buffet Queue. The average income tax rate is 97%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

The government's only official statement on the burning down of Buffet Queue was that 'they shouldn't have been so careless', shanty towns are forming in the suburbs of major cities, Eat-All-You-Can is notorious for its citizens' infidelity, and an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Eat-All-You-Can's national animal is the all-eating dietitian, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Obesity, and its currency is the deep-fried bacon bit.

Eat-All-You-Can is ranked 137th in The East Pacific and 5,896th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 5 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and