Location: Modzer0

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Free Land of PrettyBoy Johnson is a gargantuan, genial nation, renowned for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 10.617 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Social Welfare, although Education and Healthcare are on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 45%, 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.

Genetic researchers have been expelled, the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, a well-funded social safety net protects the unfortunate, and meat-eating is frowned upon. Crime is totally unknown. PrettyBoy Johnson's national animal is the ann coulter, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the ferret.

PrettyBoy Johnson is ranked 1st in Modzer0 and 23,164th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -10 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and