Location: Bettering Nations for the Greater Good

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Bailiwick Sark is a massive, economically powerful nation, remarkable for its burgeoning deer population. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 3.966 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The small government juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 16%. A small private sector is led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, followed by Uranium Mining and Book Publishing.

Voting is voluntary and the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller. Crime is relatively low. Bailiwick Sark's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the pound sterling.

Bailiwick Sark is ranked 119th in Bettering Nations for the Greater Good and 49,786th in the world for Largest Mining Sector, scoring 2 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and