Location: Troperia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Liberated People's Republic of Allrule is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Premier John Harris with an iron fist, and notable for its happy-go-lucky citizens. Its compassionate, cynical population of 6.799 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Equality, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lisbon. The average income tax rate is 98%. 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.

Most of the nation's wealthy aristocrats are dentists, frequent fliers are obliged to submit to invasive security procedures by government security, bizarre-looking creatures called 'ravendogs' dominate wildlife preserves, and postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Allrule's national animal is the raven, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is a major religion, and its currency is the dollar.

Allrule is ranked 1st in Troperia and 1,532nd in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 33 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and