Location: Portugal

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The People's Republic of Bed Peace is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Leader with a fair hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.09 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Education, although the Environment and Social Welfare are on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 84%, 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.

Most citizens in Bed Peace are abject pyrophobes after extremely graphic pamphlets were mailed nationwide by the government, the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one, government officials frequently cut taxes as a distraction from antics with their secretaries, and cremation is compulsory for the deceased. Crime is totally unknown. Bed Peace's national animal is the Human, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Not.

Bed Peace is ranked 102nd in Portugal and 97,803rd in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -7 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and