Location: Boghanistan

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Kingdom of The Old Time is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 482 million enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Illuminatis Civitatem. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 35%. A substantial private sector is led by the Tourism industry, followed by Gambling and Book Publishing.

Guns are banned, the government has taken a 'sort it out yourselves' approach to fighting malaria, euthanasia is legal, and anti-government web sites are springing up. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is relatively low. The Old Time's national animal is the Chameleon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Illustrata Aurum.

The Old Time is ranked 5th in Boghanistan and 16,429th in the world for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 20 on the Gilded Widget Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and