Location: Europeia

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The Protectorate of Owl Pellets is a gargantuan, cultured nation, notable for its restrictive gun laws. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 12.366 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is effectively ruled by the Department of Social Welfare, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Defence receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Owl Pellets City. The average income tax rate is 96%. 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.

Door-to-door salesmen are frequently beaten up by 'vigilantes', a new generation of aquariumless hotels are being built under government supervision, it is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws, and all prisons have been eliminated. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Owl Pellets's national animal is the owl, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the owl pellet.

Owl Pellets is ranked 38th in Europeia and 2,088th in the world for Healthiest Citizens, with 16 Standard Bananas Ingested per capita per day.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and