Location: St Abbaddon

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Team Advantage Nation of Spectaculawesomeness is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by The Doctor with a fair hand, and remarkable for its devotion to social welfare. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 3.472 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Education, although Social Welfare and Commerce are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Cool. The average income tax rate is 70%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Tourism industry, followed by Book Publishing and Automobile Manufacturing.

The "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The The Cool Times is sold out, every product goes through extensive safety-testing by the government, most of the nation's wealthy aristocrats are dentists, and there have been sightings of people walking around dressed in nothing but leopard-skin g-strings for 'religious reasons'. Crime is totally unknown. Spectaculawesomeness's national animal is the White Women, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Ducket.

Spectaculawesomeness is ranked 28th in St Abbaddon and 94,169th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -25 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and