Location: Hollow Point

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The Emoticons of Smiley Bob is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Danielle with a fair hand, and renowned for its parental licensing program. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 10.704 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, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Equality, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Avengers Tower. The average income tax rate is 100%. 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.

All prisons have been eliminated, the people are furious with the government for allowing citizens to be executed for petty crimes in foreign countries, the arms industry has been shut down in a surge of pacifism, and an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Smiley Bob's national animal is the dragon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the pika.

Smiley Bob is ranked 1st in Hollow Point and 3,758th in the world for Most Influential, scoring 69 on the Soft Power Disbursement Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and