Location: Antarctic Oasis

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United States of Philimbesi is a colossal, economically powerful nation, renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 9.706 billion are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Education, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 67%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

There are no minimum wage laws, scenic mountain valleys are flooded with water as damming projects get underway, the nation's massive battleships are often mistaken for islands, and legislation sometimes has to battle through weeks of filibustering to pass. Crime is relatively low, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Philimbesi's national animal is the Gecko, and its currency is the Greenback.

Philimbesi is ranked 13th in Antarctic Oasis and 15,632nd in the world for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring 5 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and