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The Economic Juggernaut of BillyBee

“A honey of a country.”

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The Economic Juggernaut of BillyBee is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by President Bankwell with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, sprawling nuclear power plants, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 43.548 billion Bees are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bombus. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient BillyBeean economy, worth an astonishing 16,605 trillion ergs a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. Average income is an amazing 381,307 ergs, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,558,622 per year while the poor average 61,759, a ratio of 25.2 to 1.

The single fish caught by BillyBeean fishers last year is cited as evidence of BillyBee's thriving fisheries, arthritic surgeons with tremulous fingers reassure patients that they are in safe hands, children who can't memorize their multiplication tables are sent to the mines, and the law is more interested in punishing crime than preventing it. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. BillyBee's national animal is the bumblebee, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is consumerism.

BillyBee is ranked 8,021^st in the world and 3^rd in Free States of Gaia for Most Corrupt Governments, with 175.04 kickbacks per hour.

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