Location: Texas

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Dizzy Flying Saucers of Doom of Frisbeeteria is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, ruled by CEO G Winston Riegle with an even hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 17.188 billion enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The minute, liberal, pro-business government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Commerce, Defence, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Greenspan. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Tourism industries.

Teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, it is a common belief that a sport isn't sport if there are no decapitations, prisoners work-share to cut down rising costs of keeping them in jail, and a chain of pubs that cater solely to children have recently been unveiled. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Frisbeeteria's national animal is the Cow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Frisbeeterianism, and its currency is the FrisB.

Frisbeeteria is ranked 21st in Texas and 2,928th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 7 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and