Location: the South Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Federation of AtlanticTradeUnion is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by Gilgamesh with a fair hand, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 2.047 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

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 Equality, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of UrbanX. The average income tax rate is 87%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

The new 'Things We Stole From Other Countries' exhibition at the National Museum of Antiquities is a hit, education and welfare spending are on the rise, prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators, and the people are famous throughout the region for their bleached-white teeth. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is moderate, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. AtlanticTradeUnion's national animal is the Grinders , which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Key.

AtlanticTradeUnion is ranked 4,594th in the South Pacific and 96,555th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -6 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

Preview

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and