Location: Lazarus

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The Forty Two Piece Bucket of Yonderboy is a colossal, devout nation, ruled by Boy Von Yonder with an iron fist, and renowned for its prohibition of alcohol. Its hard-nosed, cynical population of 5.673 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Law & Order, although the Environment and Social Equality are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of BBQ Pork and Rice. The average income tax rate is 70%, and even higher for the wealthy. 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 marriages are arranged by the government, the government is making attempts at curtailing the flood of spam emails with little progress, millions of devastated 7-year-old are denied from astronaut and ballerina training, and police and sick people alike fear the Day of Rest as all institutions are forced to shut down. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling. Yonderboy's national animal is the Yonderbug, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is the Temple Von Yonder, and its currency is the Gram.

Yonderboy is ranked 3,008th in Lazarus and 89,791st in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -3 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and