The People's Republic of Bean Broth is a large, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, ban on automobiles, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 158 million Bean Brothians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.
The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 69.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The sizeable but underdeveloped Bean Brothian economy, worth 4.24 trillion Beans a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Pizza Delivery industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Retail. Average income is 26,824 Beans, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Government reports are now used to teach toddlers to read, teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, the nation's most "productive" diamond mine hasn't been operational for seven months, and the nation is stuck in permanent election mode as politicians demand constant do-overs. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bean Broth's national animal is the Pinto Bean, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Bean Broth is ranked 484th in the world and 3rd in Horizon for Nudest, with 1,216.5 cheeks per square mile.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Bean Broth's influence in Horizon rose from "Minnow" to "Sprat".
- : Bean Broth was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Workforce Participation Rate.
- : Following new legislation in Bean Broth, the nation is stuck in permanent election mode as politicians demand constant do-overs.
- : Following new legislation in Bean Broth, the nation's most "productive" diamond mine hasn't been operational for seven months.
- : Bean Broth was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Highest Drug Use.
- : Following new legislation in Bean Broth, teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers.
- : Following new legislation in Bean Broth, government reports are now used to teach toddlers to read.
- : Following new legislation in Bean Broth, undersea volcanoes receive strongly worded letters for violating environmental regulations.
- : Following new legislation in Bean Broth, a popular saying is "a chicken for every pot and an abortion clinic on every street".
- : Following new legislation in Bean Broth, a traveller who once stubbed a toe on an Air Brancaland flight has been offered asylum.