Location: Circle of Badularity

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Unpretentious Republic of Allenstan is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Allen with a fair hand, and renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 17.047 billion are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Social Welfare, with areas such as Defence and Religion & Spirituality receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tarsier. The average income tax rate is 71%, 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.

Refugees from other nations are flocking to Allenstan's border, children of nonreligious parents are often barred from school festival events, the Allenstan Enquirer offers weekly cash prizes for 'most blasphemous song, story, or cartoon', and citizens are frequently searched for illegal weapons. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Allenstan's national animal is the tarsier, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the perun.

Allenstan is ranked 24th in Circle of Badularity and 18,351st in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 16 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and