Population | 8.272 billion |
Capital | Redemption |
Leader | The One and Only |
Faith | Building |
Currency | bots |
Animal | python |
The Adjective Noun of Bowzin is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by The One and Only with an iron fist, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 8.272 billion Bowzins are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.
The medium-sized, liberal, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Redemption. The average income tax rate is 43.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.
The all-consuming Bowzinian economy, worth 862 trillion bots a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 104,323 bots, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.
Teenagers claim that morning paper rounds are performance art, exports are stamped with "made by the invisible hand you commies", goldfish bowls are three metres in diameter, and the government spends billions to protect Bowzin from a disaster that is one in a million. Crime, especially youth-related, is a problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Bowzin's national animal is the python, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Building.
Bowzin is ranked 24,582nd in the world and 584th in the Rejected Realms for Most Cultured, scoring 85 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Bowzin was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Compassionate Citizens.
- : Bowzin was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Compassionate Citizens.
- : Bowzin was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Compassionate Citizens.
- : Bowzin's influence in The Rejected Realms rose from "Nipper" to "Minnow".
- : Bowzin was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Zombified.
- : Bowzin's influence in The Rejected Realms rose from "Newcomer" to "Nipper".
- : Bowzin's influence in The Rejected Realms rose from "Hatchling" to "Newcomer".
- : Bowzin's influence in The Rejected Realms rose from "Unproven" to "Hatchling".
- : Bowzin's influence in The Rejected Realms rose from "Zero" to "Unproven".
- : Bowzin relocated from Unified Nations to The Rejected Realms.