Location: Boghanistan

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Kingdom of The Old Time is a huge, economically powerful nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 528 million hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Illuminatis Civitatem. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 33%. A substantial private sector is led by the Tourism industry, followed by Gambling and Book Publishing.

Anti-government web sites are springing up, charged suspects often have to wait years before the courts have room to judge their trial, most governmental positions are filled by zealous nationalists, and anti-government political posters adorn every building like wallpaper. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is well under control. 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 17th in Boghanistan and 76,173rd in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -1 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and