Location: Central Pacific Empire

Overview • Factbook • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Bankstown City is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by Leader with an even hand, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.7 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 Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bankstown CBD. The average income tax rate is 69%, and even higher for the wealthy. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Drunk drivers are sentenced to death, politicians constantly ring their voters to remind them how good a job they're doing, 'unconventional' weaponry has been banned, and the armed forces are locked in an expensive and bloody war abroad to stamp out possible terrorists. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bankstown City's national animal is the Ibis, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Australian Dollar.

Bankstown City is ranked 17th in Central Pacific Empire and 53,646th in the world for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 15 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and