Location: Antarctic Oasis

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United States of Cookesland is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by President Isabella Wu with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 11.642 billion enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Education, with areas such as Social Equality and Religion & Spirituality receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Coricas. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 37%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, followed by Tourism and Information Technology.

Citizens are encouraged to report friends, family members or co-workers who seem depressed to the government for "counselling", immigrants flood the job queues as discrimination in the workplace makes a staggering comeback, citizens are permitted to carry concealed handguns, and a typical fast food menu item could serve a small army. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cookesland's national animal is the Blue Owl, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Piero.

Cookesland is ranked 19th in Antarctic Oasis and 54,065th in the world for Happiest Citizens, scoring 10 on the Relative Cheerfulness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and