Location: Greater Dienstad

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Perpetual Picnic of Teddy Bears Armed is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its unlimited-speed roads. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 4.752 billion are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny government is mainly concerned with Social Welfare, although Education and Religion & Spirituality are on the agenda. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8%. A robust private sector is led by the Gambling industry, followed by Trout Farming and Book Publishing.

Military funding has been stripped back, the roads are notorious throughout the region for their peril, punitive tariffs protect local industry, and only adults may purchase violent video games. Crime is a problem, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Teddy Bears Armed's national animal is the gingerbread man, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the honey jar.

Teddy Bears Armed is ranked 32nd in Greater Dienstad and 63,891st in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -14 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and