Location: United Kingdom

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United Kingdom of CO of Alpha Company is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its compulsory military service. Its compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 2.024 billion are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The minute government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, the Environment, and Commerce. The average income tax rate is 13%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

The government awards prizes to television shows featuring stereotype-breaking minority roles and political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations. Crime is a problem. CO of Alpha Company's national animal is the Soldier, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Rifle.

CO of Alpha Company is ranked 73rd in United Kingdom and 55,620th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 18 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and