Spotlight on:

“By The People For The People”

Overview • Policies • People • Government • Economy • Rank • Trend • Cards

The Disputed Territories of The Belverordia is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Jonesy with a fair hand, and remarkable for its fear of technology, absence of drug laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.363 billion Belverordians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Panthergrad. The average income tax rate is 92.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Belverordian economy, worth 254 trillion guilders a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry. Average income is 75,723 guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

An increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, graffiti graces every city's streets, soldiers have swapped their uniforms for prisonwear, and relations with Dàguó have warmed from frosty to chilly. Crime is totally unknown. The Belverordia's national animal is the panther, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Belverordia is ranked 37,296^th in the world and 17^th in The Wellspring for Most Extreme, scoring 35.73 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.