Population | 28.292 billion |
Faith | Parapsychobabblity |
Currency | sawdust |
Animal | skeletal horse |
The Undignified Melodrama of The Bone of Contention is a gargantuan, genial nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, humorless, devout population of 28.292 billion Bone of Contentionians enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.
The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 83.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The Bone of Contentionian economy, worth a remarkable 2,542 trillion sawdusts a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 89,851 sawdusts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Political scientists despair as the national mascot election eclipses all others in voter enthusiasm, criminals are thrown to the skeletal horses to repay their debt to society, any citizen who cries is immediately assigned a psychiatrist, and students athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned skeletal horseball fields. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Bone of Contention's national animal is the skeletal horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Parapsychobabblity.
The Bone of Contention is ranked 290,770th in the world and 7th in The Skeleton Army for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -50.61 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : The Dominion of Ramatupacs appointed The Bone of Contention as Bone with authority over Successor, Appearance, Border Control, Communications, Embassies, and Polls in The Skeleton Army.
- : The Bone of Contention was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Valuable International Artwork, Highest Economic Output, Most World Assembly Endorsements, Most Inclusive, and Most Advanced Public Education.
- : The Bone of Contention was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most World Assembly Endorsements.
- : The Bone of Contention was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Inclusive.
- : The Bone of Contention was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Inclusive.
- : The Bone of Contention was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most World Assembly Endorsements.
- : The Bone of Contention lodged a message on the The Skeleton Army Regional Message Board.
- : The Bone of Contention lodged a message on the The Skeleton Army Regional Message Board.
- : The Bone of Contention was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Dead, Most Zombies, and Most Survivors.
- : The Bone of Contention's influence in The Skeleton Army fell from "Powerbroker" to "Eminence Grise".