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Largest Gambling Industry: 932ndHighest Wealthy Incomes: 1,099thGreatest Rich-Poor Divides: 1,133rd
The Free Enterprise Zone of
Corporate Bordello Blood-Sucking Capitalist Leeches
Give me profits or give me death
Influence
Shoeshiner
Region
Civil Rights
Excellent
Economy
Frightening
Political Freedom
Excellent

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Boeingia

Population616 million

CapitalRaytheonople

Currencybitcoin
Animalrattlesnake

The Free Enterprise Zone of Boeingia is a huge, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, pith helmet sales, and strictly enforced bedtime. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 616 million Boeingians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Raytheonople. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Boeingian economy, worth 105 trillion bitcoins 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 Gambling, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 170,935 bitcoins, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,462,354 per year while the poor average 3,458, a ratio of 422 to 1.

Rural Boeingians stare in awe at the bright lights of the big cities, the most ambitious parents buy a dozen lottery scratch-cards each week for their kids, recent events have left citizens both shaken and stirred, and corporations have to consult a fifty-page "sanctions spreadsheet" to determine which countries they are allowed to do business with. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Boeingia's national animal is the rattlesnake, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Boeingia is ranked 2,118th in the world and 7th in Hell for Fattest Citizens, with 44.75 Obesity Rate.

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Largest Gambling Industry: 932ndHighest Wealthy Incomes: 1,099thGreatest Rich-Poor Divides: 1,133rdLowest Overall Tax Burden: 1,136thHighest Unexpected Death Rate: 1,735thRudest Citizens: 1,779thHighest Crime Rates: 1,831stFattest Citizens: 2,118thHighest Disposable Incomes: 2,531stMost Avoided: 2,543rdLargest Automobile Manufacturing Sector: 2,625thLargest Soda Pop Sector: 2,888thTop
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Largest Mining Sector: 5,037thLargest Pizza Delivery Sector: 5,317thMost Armed: 5,543rdLargest Retail Industry: 6,712thMost Rebellious Youth: 10,122ndLargest Manufacturing Sector: 14,029thTop
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Highest Average Incomes: 17,731stMost Efficient Economies: 19,666thHighest Workforce Participation Rate: 21,982ndLargest Arms Manufacturing Sector: 24,577thMost Patriotic: 29,099thMost Corrupt Governments: 29,385th
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Greatest Rich-Poor Divides: 4th in the regionHighest Wealthy Incomes: 5th in the regionLargest Automobile Manufacturing Sector: 5th in the regionLowest Overall Tax Burden: 5th in the regionHighest Crime Rates: 6th in the regionLargest Gambling Industry: 6th in the regionMost Avoided: 7th in the regionRudest Citizens: 7th in the regionHighest Disposable Incomes: 7th in the regionFattest Citizens: 7th in the regionHighest Unexpected Death Rate: 8th in the regionLargest Soda Pop Sector: 8th in the regionTop
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Most Armed: 11th in the regionLargest Mining Sector: 12th in the regionMost Rebellious Youth: 14th in the regionMost Pro-Market: 14th in the regionLargest Retail Industry: 15th in the regionLargest Pizza Delivery Sector: 15th in the regionHighest Workforce Participation Rate: 16th in the region

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Following new legislation in Boeingia, corporations have to consult a fifty-page "sanctions spreadsheet" to determine which countries they are allowed to do business with.
  • : Following new legislation in Boeingia, recent events have left citizens both shaken and stirred.
  • : Following new legislation in Boeingia, the most ambitious parents buy a dozen lottery scratch-cards each week for their kids.
  • : Following new legislation in Boeingia, rural Boeingians stare in awe at the bright lights of the big cities.
  • : Following new legislation in Boeingia, the nation's mettle is about to be tested.
  • : Following new legislation in Boeingia, councils up and down the country wrangle over legal matters.
  • : Boeingia was reclassified from "Capitalist Paradise" to "Corporate Bordello".
  • : Following new legislation in Boeingia, it's not only teenagers who mess around with fake IDs.
  • : Following new legislation in Boeingia, the public health bureaucracy is wrapped in miles of red tape.
  • : Following new legislation in Boeingia, the unofficial motto of the nation's intelligence agency is "in Bont we trust".

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