Location: pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Dominion of Slightly Smaller Fluffy Bunnies is a huge, economically powerful nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 626 million are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Commerce, and Defence. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 38%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Information Technology industries.

Children as young as eight can be found working in factories, a typical fast food menu item could serve a small army, hundreds of thousands of convicts work as slaves in Slightly Smaller Fluffy Bunnies's many privately-owned prisons, and the government is notorious for leaving citizens with almost nothing from their inheritance. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling. Slightly Smaller Fluffy Bunnies's national animal is the Hog, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Transportable Cockroach.

Slightly Smaller Fluffy Bunnies is ranked 4th in pacific and 4,680th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring 16 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and