Location: the South Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Empire of Yeses is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, ruled by President with an even hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 10.505 billion are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defence. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yeses City. The average income tax rate is 52%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

Loans are available for students from poor families, mining safety laws are often more expensive than what's being mined, legislators work 24/7 due to an influx of single-issue bills, and military geniuses responsible for brilliant campaigns are drummed out because they have close same-sex friends and an interest in interior design. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Yeses's national animal is the ant, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the colony dollar.

Yeses is ranked 1,058th in the South Pacific and 32,209th in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 13 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and