Location: The North Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Unitarian Universalist State of Andromeda Islands is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its hatred of cheese. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 19.258 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Social Welfare, with areas such as Commerce and Religion & Spirituality receiving almost no funds by comparison. The average income tax rate is 94%, 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.

All weapon research has been banned, radio shows frequently feature people denouncing religion, schools have extensive counseling programs for troubled students, and religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Andromeda Islands's national animal is the anteater, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the silverdinero.

Andromeda Islands is ranked 4,478th in The North Pacific and 98,260th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -7 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and