Location: Newtopia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Burning Hot Queendom of Raging Ball of Fire is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, notable for its ban on automobiles. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 17.322 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Religion & Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 95%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

Citizens are frequently held up at gunpoint by their local pizza delivery boys, nobody ever seems to enter or leave the armour-plated flying castle that serves as Raging Ball of Fire's House of Parliament, the colors pink and purple are banned from military unit insignia, and the teaching of evolution has been banned. Crime is moderate. Raging Ball of Fire's national animal is the Firey Dragon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Match.

Raging Ball of Fire is ranked 4th in Newtopia and 89,818th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -21 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and