Location: The New Galactic Republic

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Collective of SkaMs is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Pragmatobot with a fair hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 3.688 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 Welfare, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Equitopia. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 32%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry.

Religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else, the government is promoting multicultural values with the new 'Just Be Nice, OK?' initiative, the government is avowedly atheist, and schoolchildren have twice-weekly sex education classes. Crime is totally unknown. 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 72nd in The New Galactic Republic and 84,101st in the world for Best Weather, with -68 Metres of Sunlight Above Expected.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and