Location: Chile

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Failed Quest of Frodo Baggins is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 529 million are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Social Welfare, with areas such as Law & Order and Defence receiving almost no funds by comparison. The average income tax rate is 61%, and even higher for the wealthy. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Beef-Based Agriculture.

The latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, voting is compulsory, organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region, and TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas. Crime is totally unknown. Frodo Baggins's national animal is the Dwarf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Elf.

Frodo Baggins is ranked 1st in Chile and 58,567th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 0 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and