Location: Lazarus

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Principality of Automatic Tigers is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Leader with an even hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 3.164 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, Healthcare, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Automatic Tigers City. The average income tax rate is 84%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

Nude art is becoming wildly popular, Members of Parliament operate under a PAYE scheme, new safety regulations require all cars manufactured in Automatic Tigers to be bombproof, and the government is making attempts at curtailing the flood of spam emails with little progress. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Automatic Tigers's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the tige.

Automatic Tigers is ranked 2,923rd in Lazarus and 88,747th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -4 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and