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“The Bog Beast of Bagaba!”

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The Bog Beast of Bogaba is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by The Bog Beast with a fair hand, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, keen interest in outer space, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 6.79 billion Bog Beasts live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The minute, liberal, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Industry, with Administration, Education, and Defense also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Environment are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bogabania. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.1%.

The all-consuming Bog Beast economy, worth 498 trillion Bogs a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Arms Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 73,425 Bogs, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 387,396 per year while the poor average 7,403, a ratio of 52.3 to 1.

Nano-Bog beasts are the current fad sweeping the nation, weekends are spent tilting at windmills, foreign workers are flooding in as Bogs flood out, and there's often a little nagging voice suggesting that parents aren't keeping their kids safe. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Bogaba's national animal is the Bog beast, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Swampism.

Bogaba is ranked 113,690^th in the world and 56^th in Spiritus for Largest Populations, with 6.79 billion capita.