The Disputed Territories of Bettongia is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Scrappy with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, national health service, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 42.091 billion Bettongs are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.
The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, with Spirituality and Social Policy not funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bettongia City. The average income tax rate is 57.5%.
The frighteningly efficient Bettongish economy, worth an astonishing 16,956 trillion Oats a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Soda Sales. Average income is an amazing 402,859 Oats, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.
Shooting someone has never been safer, construction of the Really Big Hadron Collider is underway, the government subsidizes everything from particle physics to fabric softeners, and academics have a bone to pick with free market entrepreneurs. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Bettongia's national animal is the Bettong, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Bettongia is ranked 5,371st in the world and 69th in Osiris for Most Stationary, with 2,700.66493824 days.
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Bettongia, academics have a bone to pick with free market entrepreneurs.
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Bettongia, the government subsidizes everything from particle physics to fabric softeners.
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Bettongia, construction of the Really Big Hadron Collider is underway.
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Bettongia, shooting someone has never been safer.
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Bettongia, teenagers performing appendectomies on their friends has become a popular schoolyard prank.
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Bettongia, "Mad Max: Returning Again to Barrydrome" is this year's unexpected summer blockbuster.
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Bettongia, citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits.
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Bettongia, guide dogs for the blind have been seen using government websites.
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Bettongia, news headlines suggest that Scrappy has a sideline in guinea pig pimping.
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Bettongia was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Beautiful Environments.