Location: Balder

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Forty Two Piece Bucket of Yonderboy is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Boy Von Yonder with an iron fist, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 5.109 billion are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Law & Order, although the Environment and Defence are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of BBQ Pork and Rice. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 61%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology industry, followed by Retail and Book Publishing.

All news sources are under strict government control, the government is cracking down on subversive groups, students in Yonderboy's schools rarely attend their classes, and fewer people are bathing as citizens must show ration stamps before they can turn on their faucets. 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 1,689th in Balder and 76,906th in the world for Most Politically Free, scoring 16 on the Diebold Election Inking Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and