Location: the Rejected Realms

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Amazingly Yummy Empire of Robo Pies is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Pie Dux Umwelt with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 6.484 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Galvaspilseta Crustum. The average income tax rate is 95%. 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.

Marketing departments of corporate giants compete to sponsor little league teams, heavy industry must go to expensive lengths to dispose of waste, Members of Parliament are often found living in cardboard boxes, and eight out of ten children believe hard lemonade gives you cirrhosis of the liver. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Robo Pies's national animal is the magpie, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the pie.

Robo Pies is ranked 1,246th in the Rejected Realms and 98,615th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -34 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and