Location: Warzone Australia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Antibertiescum is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Justice Mahon with a fair hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 1.116 billion are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Defence, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of AntiGalwayTent City. The average income tax rate is 85%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining industries.

Cheese has become the new icon of political dissent, cremation is compulsory for the deceased, the government pours millions of puntonpunts into rehabilitation programs annually, and Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Antibertiescum's national animal is the dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the puntonpunt.

Antibertiescum is ranked 16th in Warzone Australia and 85,327th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -3 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and