Location: Atlantian Oceania

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Badger Republic of Yelvoldia is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Meles Mendes with a fair hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 1.498 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 juggles the competing demands of Commerce, Education, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Qervagrad. The average income tax rate is 65%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, followed by Information Technology and Tourism.

Cheese has become the new icon of political dissent, Badger populations thrive as dogs are slaughtered in the millions, the government is spending billions of taxpayer Targets to support the Book Publishing industry, and Meles Mendes has just been declared ruler of Yelvoldia in an international press conference. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Yelvoldia's national animal is the Badger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Target.

Yelvoldia is ranked 217th in Atlantian Oceania and 121,986th in the world for Healthiest Citizens, with -3 Standard Bananas Ingested per capita per day.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and