Location: Land of Cats

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Community of Booksmarts is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.502 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.

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 Equality. The average income tax rate is 73%, and even higher for the wealthy. A small but healthy private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

The government recently relinquished its monopoly on the mail service, drug distribution is tightly controlled by the government, people choose marriage partners by buying a lottery ticket, and the police have reaffirmed their tough stance on drugs. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Booksmarts's national animal is the Book, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Word.

Booksmarts is ranked 1st in Land of Cats and 70,878th in the world for Largest Mining Sector, scoring 1 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and