Location: the Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Ainin is a massive, safe nation, ruled by President Harold Brown with a fair hand, and remarkable for its restrictive gun laws. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 2.637 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 juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Forestia. The average income tax rate is 65%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Coyote is one of the most popular forenames in Ainin, recruitment posters proclaim the army to be both fabulous and fashionable, the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, and Ainin is notorious for its citizens' infidelity. Crime is well under control, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ainin's national animal is the Coyote, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is none, and its currency is the Aininian Dollar.

Ainin is ranked 3,135th in the Pacific and 73,417th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -1 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and