Location: Minnesota

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Commonwealth of Apollans is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.219 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Delphi. The average income tax rate is 91%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

'Mountain Doobie' is widely regarded as the nation's favourite drink, every product goes through extensive safety-testing by the government, conscientious objectors are hanged as traitors, and the 'kind of scrawny' 500 meter hurdle is a popular event. Crime is totally unknown. Apollans's national animal is the Mongoose, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Chak.

Apollans is ranked 12th in Minnesota and 73,394th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -1 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and