Location: Das Imperium

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

The United Nation of Beshmakas is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by President Lynch with an even hand, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 4.581 billion are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Defence, although Law & Order and Education are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Viechstan. The average income tax rate is 61%, 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.

Students and teachers are regularly stopped and searched for symbols of religious affiliation before class, citizens are regularly found digging for treasure in their gardens, businesses that prove successful are immediately broken up, and citizens can be frequently spotted going about their business stark naked. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Beshmakas's national animal is the Makas Bobcat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Beshmakian dollar.

Beshmakas is ranked 5th in Das Imperium and 34,015th in the world for Healthiest Citizens, with 5 Standard Bananas Ingested per capita per day.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and