Location: the West Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Travel Agency of Californian Tourism W is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by The Yellow Emperor and Lao Tzu with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 16.564 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, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on the Environment, although Commerce and Education are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Old Beijing. The average income tax rate is 55%, and even higher for the wealthy. A tiny private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Citizens are frequently searched for illegal weapons, political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations, the mining industry has taken a hit from tighter environmental regulations, and the Californian Bear is a protected species. Crime is totally unknown. Californian Tourism W's national animal is the Californian Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Californian Dollar.

Californian Tourism W is ranked 940th in the West Pacific and 25,959th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 2 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and