Location: Texas

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Federation of Amandil is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its national health service. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 10.186 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, liberal, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Education, although the Environment and Social Equality are secondary priorities. The average income tax rate is 100%. 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.

Politicians have to be granted day-release from prison to speak on bills, the government is giving peace a chance, teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, and companies struggle to cover for the hordes of employees on parental leave. Crime is totally unknown. Amandil's national animal is the cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the spoon.

Amandil is ranked 169th in Texas and 101,305th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -14 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and