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Most Advanced Public Transport: 17,627thMost Stationary: 22,038thMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 22,971st
The Royal Queendom of
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Buzzing Beehive

Population11.157 billion

CapitalNorth Comb
LeaderQueen Lya
Faithapiarism

Currencypollen
Animalaphid

The Royal Queendom of Buzzing Beehive is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Queen Lya with an iron fist, and renowned for its closed borders, barren, inhospitable landscape, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 11.157 billion Buzzing Beehiveans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Law & Order, although Defense, Spirituality, and Administration are also considered important, while Social Policy and International Aid aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of North Comb. The average income tax rate is 70.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Buzzing Beehivean economy, worth 833 trillion pollens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Basket Weaving, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 74,682 pollens, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

They who do not work shall not eat, the military is slashing spending on conventional arms and diverting it to spending on prosthetic arms, the nation's politicians are acknowledged as the most polite in the region to the dismay of comedians everywhere, and Buzzing Beehiveans are fixin' ta comma any way they wanna. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Buzzing Beehive's national animal is the aphid, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is apiarism.

Buzzing Beehive is ranked 321,165th in the world and 14th in Paradise Farm for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -8.76 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.

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Most Advanced Public Transport: 17,627thMost Stationary: 22,038thMost Advanced Law Enforcement: 22,971stSafest: 24,299thMost Devout: 25,972ndMost Extensive Public Healthcare: 30,242ndLargest Black Market: 30,731stLargest Basket Weaving Sector: 33,259th
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Most Advanced Law Enforcement: 1st in the regionMost Devout: 1st in the regionLargest Black Market: 1st in the regionHighest Unexpected Death Rate: 1st in the region

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Buzzing Beehive was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Basket Weaving Sector.
  • : Buzzing Beehive was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Basket Weaving Sector.
  • : Buzzing Beehive was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Extensive Public Healthcare.
  • : Following new legislation in Buzzing Beehive, Buzzing Beehiveans are fixin' ta comma any way they wanna.
  • : Following new legislation in Buzzing Beehive, the nation's politicians are acknowledged as the most polite in the region to the dismay of comedians everywhere.
  • : Following new legislation in Buzzing Beehive, the military is slashing spending on conventional arms and diverting it to spending on prosthetic arms.
  • : Following new legislation in Buzzing Beehive, they who do not work shall not eat.
  • : Following new legislation in Buzzing Beehive, student athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned aphidball fields.
  • : Buzzing Beehive was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Black Market.
  • : Buzzing Beehive was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Black Market.

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