Population | 43.555 billion |
Capital | Bombus |
Leader | President Bankwell |
Faith | consumerism |
Currency | erg |
Animal | bumblebee |
The Economic Juggernaut of BillyBee is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by President Bankwell with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, sprawling nuclear power plants, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 43.555 billion Bees are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.
The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bombus. Income tax is unheard of.
The frighteningly efficient BillyBeean economy, worth an astonishing 16,607 trillion ergs 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 Automobile Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. Average income is an amazing 381,307 ergs, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,558,622 per year while the poor average 61,759, a ratio of 25.2 to 1.
The single fish caught by BillyBeean fishers last year is cited as evidence of BillyBee's thriving fisheries, arthritic surgeons with tremulous fingers reassure patients that they are in safe hands, children who can't memorize their multiplication tables are sent to the mines, and the law is more interested in punishing crime than preventing it. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. BillyBee's national animal is the bumblebee, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is consumerism.
BillyBee is ranked 288,555th in the world and 16th in Free States of Gaia for Highest Food Quality, scoring 3.81 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in BillyBee, the law is more interested in punishing crime than preventing it.
- : Following new legislation in BillyBee, children who can't memorize their multiplication tables are sent to the mines.
- : Following new legislation in BillyBee, arthritic surgeons with tremulous fingers reassure patients that they are in safe hands.
- : Following new legislation in BillyBee, the single fish caught by BillyBeean fishers last year is cited as evidence of BillyBee's thriving fisheries.
- : Following new legislation in BillyBee, pilots always remember to send their doctors a Maxxmas card.
- : Following new legislation in BillyBee, vaccinations are mandatory.
- : Following new legislation in BillyBee, young people avoid opening doors for the elderly with impunity.
- : BillyBee was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Avoided, Highest Disposable Incomes, Highest Average Incomes, Highest Economic Output, and Highest Wealthy Incomes.
- : Following new legislation in BillyBee, the name of the "Butcher of Bigtopia" adorns shirts across BillyBee.
- : Following new legislation in BillyBee, after every storm there's an expensive government-funded rainbow.