Location: Assembly of Sovereign Nations

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Commonwealth of Chimaea is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Governor Tanya Bryce with a fair hand, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 10.499 billion are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Education, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Sydney. The average income tax rate is 96%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, followed by Automobile Manufacturing and Uranium Mining.

Grazing lands are filled with cattle wearing odd-looking anti-pollution devices, the automotive industry soaks up huge government handouts, teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, and more and more students are taking up a career in medicine. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Chimaea's national animal is the Elephant, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the Sil.

Chimaea is ranked 11th in Assembly of Sovereign Nations and 97,920th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -7 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and