Location: 10000 Islands

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Holy Ancient Dreamlands of Alathia is a colossal, economically powerful nation, ruled by Alielle with a fair hand, and notable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 7.039 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Education, although the Environment and Social Equality are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Celandine. The average income tax rate is 98%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else, condemned prisoners spend hours a day sitting in lotus position looking perplexed, teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, and cyber-crime and tin-foil hat sales are both increasing at record rates. Crime is totally unknown. Alathia's national animal is the carnivorous pegasus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is agnosticism, and its currency is the alete.

Alathia is ranked 8th in 10000 Islands and 314th in the world for Happiest Citizens, scoring 15 on the Relative Cheerfulness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and