Location: Xanadou

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Kingdom of Ang Philippines is a colossal, economically powerful nation, ruled by Jozefo Yamashita XLVI with an even hand, and notable for its hatred of cheese. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 6.841 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Religion & Spirituality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Manila. The average income tax rate is 69%. 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.

Dark alleys and public toilets are filled with furtive sexual activities among teenagers and unmarried adults, all streets are privately owned toll roads, politicians accepting drinks in bars are executed for taking bribes, and the government has cut taxes in the face of widespread tax evasion. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ang Philippines's national animal is the bald eagle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Roman Catholicism , and its currency is the peso.

Ang Philippines is ranked 6th in Xanadou and 9,838th in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 20 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and