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The Jingoistic States of Bumblegaria

“Bite like a bumblebee, sting like a staffy”

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The Jingoistic States of Bumblegaria is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Queen Bee with an even hand, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, complete lack of prisons, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, humorless population of 3.546 billion Bumblegarians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bumdon. The average income tax rate is 95.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Bumblegarian economy, worth 387 trillion Staffinkies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 109,159 Staffinkies, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Suburban backyards are seized by the government and turned into national parks, parents are fined for sending their children to take out the trash after sunset, attendance of fathers at PTA meetings is at an all-time high, and it's been a banner year for local vexillology. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bumblegaria's national animal is the Bumblebee, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is unimportant.

Bumblegaria is ranked 9,779^th in the world and 266^th in the South Pacific for Most Advanced Public Transport, scoring 3,308.42 on the Societal Mobility Rating.

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