Location: the West Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Grand Bazaar of Capitalist Paradise is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 21.59 billion are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, pro-business individuals is mainly concerned with Education, although Law & Order and Defence are on the agenda. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry.

The people elect the Supreme Court justices directly, organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region, the government has cut its subsidies for all special interest groups, and the mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Capitalist Paradise's national animal is the donkey, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the simoleon.

Capitalist Paradise is ranked 4,530th in the West Pacific and 117,715th in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 40 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and