Location: Celestria

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Disputed Territories of Celestrian Asia is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service. Its compassionate, cynical population of 2.459 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Religion & Spirituality, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Beijing. The average income tax rate is 45%, but much higher for the wealthy. A small but healthy private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

The government has the power to seize property at will, women who display their ankles are shunned by society, the government is cracking down on subversive groups, and the Dragon is a protected species. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Celestrian Asia's national animal is the Dragon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Celestrian Pound.

Celestrian Asia is ranked 6th in Celestria and 54,181st in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 11 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and