Location: 10000 Islands

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Commonwealth of Akotash is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Aedroth Akotash with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 6.197 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, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arkay. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 43%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Tourism industry, followed by Uranium Mining and Woodchip Exports.

Inter-species marriages are ignored by the government, students are wary of colorfully decorated new teachers with names like Professor Pipsqueak, electrocution deaths among computer technicians are at an all-time high, and politicians have to be granted day-release from prison to speak on bills. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Akotash's national animal is the Mudkip, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the Dollar.

Akotash is ranked 715th in 10000 Islands and 40,410th 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