Location: Ulthar

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The People's Republic of Communist Polybot is a massive, safe nation, notable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, cynical population of 4.916 billion are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Abolition of Capital. The average income tax rate is 99%. 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.

It is illegal to make racist remarks in public, even the most lowly council pen-pusher has the same political power as a senior minister, the minority inevitably have their addenda vetoed, and graffiti graces every city's streets. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Communist Polybot's national animal is the rat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the brownnote.

Communist Polybot is ranked 105th in Ulthar and 101,523rd in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -19 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

Preview

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and