Population | 11.734 billion |
Leader | Nakari |
Currency | snuggle |
Animal | budgie |
The Once and Future Delegate of Budgie Snugglers is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Nakari with an iron fist, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 11.734 billion Budgie Snugglers are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.
The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Administration, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 72.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The budgie-smuggling economy, worth 591 trillion snuggles 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 large, well-organized, highly specialized black market in Furniture Restoration, Soda Sales, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. 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 50,412 snuggles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Pedants defending Nakari observe that psychopaths and sociopaths aren't exactly the same thing, the government has adopted a "Lightning Never Strikes Twice" approach to dealing with natural disasters, ministers browse Alright! magazine for fashion tips, and Nakari is plotting to coup the Pacific (Budgie Snugglers has found 1 easter egg). Crime is relatively low, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Budgie Snugglers's national animal is the budgie, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.
Budgie Snugglers is ranked 70,117th in the world and 1,354th in the Rejected Realms for Highest Food Quality, scoring 28.7 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Budgie Snugglers was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, Most Influential, and Most Primitive and the Top 10% for Largest Black Market and Most Beautiful Environments.
- : Budgie Snugglers was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Welfare Programs.
- : Budgie Snugglers was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Welfare Programs.
- : Budgie Snugglers was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Primitive.
- : Budgie Snugglers was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Primitive.
- : Budgie Snugglers was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Primitive.
- : Budgie Snugglers was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Primitive.
- : Budgie Snugglers was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Dead and Most Zombified.
- : Budgie Snugglers was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Primitive.
- : Budgie Snugglers was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Welfare Programs.