Location: Circle of Badularity

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Unpretentious Republic of Allenstan is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Allen with a fair hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 16.435 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 concentrates mainly on Social Welfare, although Education and Social Equality are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tarsier. The average income tax rate is 80%, 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.

An increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, terrified neighbors cower behind concertina wire and machine gun nests, all prisons have been eliminated, and pharmacies close down as medicinal drugs are sold freely by the government. 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 3rd in Circle of Badularity and 331st in the world for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring 115 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and