Location: Golden Hill

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Kingdom of 78 Bagpipe Players is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Leader with a fair hand, and notable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.49 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Education, although Social Welfare and Healthcare are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of 78 Bagpipe Players City. The average income tax rate is 74%, and even higher for the wealthy. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

'unconventional' weaponry has been banned, the nation is experiencing a severe shortage of sporting events, the government has declared its commitment to multilateralism, and reporters often lose their jobs over fact-checking errors. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown. 78 Bagpipe Players's national animal is the haggis, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the burl.

78 Bagpipe Players is ranked 13th in Golden Hill and 94,580th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -4 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and