Location: 10000 Islands

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Holy Ancient Dreamlands of Alathia is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Alielle with a fair hand, and remarkable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 6.41 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 concentrates mainly on Education, although the Environment and Social Equality are on the agenda. 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.

The "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The Celandine Times is sold out, conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings, anti-government web sites are springing up, and guns are banned. 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 1,934th in 10000 Islands and 89,205th in the world for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring -6 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and