Location: Antarctica

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Emmy Award-Winning Potato of Hobbitat is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, ruled by Toeless Bob with an even hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 19.696 billion are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The enormous, corrupt, pro-business government concentrates mainly on Law & Order, although Education and Healthcare are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nutbush City. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Uranium Mining, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Woodchip Exports industries.

The government is notorious for leaving citizens with almost nothing from their inheritance, teenagers stay out into the wee hours of the morning "stargazing", bicyclists are banned from major roads, and criminals rejoice in the streets as the entire police force is sent away on a training retreat. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hobbitat's national animal is the lemming, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the hairy toe.

Hobbitat is ranked 37th in Antarctica and 62,670th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 18 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and