Location: Nova

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Googleistic Democracy of Googlewoop is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Jon Pratum with an even hand, and remarkable for its happy-go-lucky citizens. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 8.986 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Commerce, the Environment, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Googleopolis. The average income tax rate is 25%, but much higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Automobile Manufacturing industry.

Mining safety laws are often more expensive than what's being mined, nude art is becoming wildly popular, the government has cut its subsidies for all special interest groups, and photographers have to apply for a license to photograph Jon Pratum. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Googlewoop's national animal is the Googlewoop Slazenger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Google.

Googlewoop is ranked 7th in Nova and 23,737th in the world for Most Politically Free, scoring 72 on the Diebold Election Inking Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and