Location: Jacobs Cattlebean

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Free Land of Jacobs Cattlebean is a massive, devout nation, ruled by Leader with an even hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.715 billion are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

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 Religion & Spirituality, with areas such as Commerce and Healthcare receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Jacobs Cattlebean City. The average income tax rate is 70%, and even higher for the wealthy. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Euthanasia is illegal, Turkey populations thrive as dogs are slaughtered in the millions, libraries are bulldozed to make way for internet cafés, and the airship business has been driven out of the country by strict regulations and high fines. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Jacobs Cattlebean's national animal is the Turkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is a major religion, and its currency is the Tiny Ferret.

Jacobs Cattlebean is ranked 1st in Jacobs Cattlebean and 130,341st in the world for Healthiest Citizens, with -13 Standard Bananas Ingested per capita per day.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and