Location: World Pirates Alliance

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Booty Magnet of Pholidoteuthis is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its absence of drug laws. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 21.826 billion 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.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Social Equality. The average income tax rate is 23%, but much higher for the wealthy. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Book Publishing.

A large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, the government is avowedly atheist, same-sex marriages are increasingly common, and all recreational drugs are legal. Crime is a problem, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Pholidoteuthis's national animal is the booty cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the booty booty.

Pholidoteuthis is ranked 3rd in World Pirates Alliance and 72,288th in the world for Stupidest Citizens, scoring 13 on the Average Edu-UNtellignce® Test Score.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and