Population | 16.997 billion |
Capital | Hawthorn |
Leader | King Alswitch |
Currency | boing |
Animal | throstle |
The Imperial Glorious Empire of Baggieland is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by King Alswitch with an iron fist, and notable for its aversion to nipples, national health service, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 16.997 billion Baggies 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.
The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hawthorn. The average income tax rate is 1.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Baggielandian economy, worth a remarkable 6,032 trillion boings a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Gambling, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an amazing 354,908 boings, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.
Baggielandian TV is considered cruel and unusual punishment in other countries, 4-year-olds studying for their mathematics exams are anxious that they will be unemployable in adulthood if they fail, children are often punished for the sins of the fathers, and escargots have lost their charm ever since they started to be called 'cooked land snails'. Crime is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Baggieland's national animal is the throstle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Baggieland is ranked 293,003rd in the world and 2nd in B71 for Lowest Crime Rates, with 4.62 law-abiding acts per hour.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Baggieland, escargots have lost their charm ever since they started to be called 'cooked land snails'.
- : Following new legislation in Baggieland, children are often punished for the sins of the fathers.
- : Following new legislation in Baggieland, 4-year-olds studying for their mathematics exams are anxious that they will be unemployable in adulthood if they fail.
- : Following new legislation in Baggieland, Baggielandian TV is considered cruel and unusual punishment in other countries.
- : Baggieland agreed to construct embassies between B71 and Hyperborea.
- : Following new legislation in Baggieland, merchant ships always travel line astern in Baggielandian waters.
- : Following new legislation in Baggieland, gene-engineered sewerjacks don't smell but they do stink.
- : Following new legislation in Baggieland, the government's foreign policy statements are less threatening than a World Assembly cease-and-desist letter.
- : Following new legislation in Baggieland, sharks are enjoying their deliveries of canned food.
- : Following new legislation in Baggieland, virtually all of the country's economic activity takes place in Hawthorn.