Location: The New Galactic Republic

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Pragmatic Optimization of SkaMs is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Pragmatobot with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 4.293 billion 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, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Equality, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Optimapolis. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 21%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry.

The "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The Optimapolis Times is sold out, Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity, loans are available for students from poor families, and roads are often attended by round-the-clock construction crews. Crime is relatively low. SkaMs's national animal is the squirrel, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the buck.

SkaMs is ranked 42nd in The New Galactic Republic and 46,021st in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 11 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and