Location: the South Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The People's Democratic Republic of Community Property is a gargantuan, genial nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 11.4 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

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, the Environment, and Education. The average income tax rate is 100%. 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.

'A is for Annulment' is a popular children's song, citizens applying for their first jobs face fierce competition from the homeless, the Community Property Enquirer offers weekly cash prizes for 'most blasphemous song, story, or cartoon', and the government seizes private property for the 'good of the people'. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Community Property's national animal is the New Socialist Man, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the hammer.

Community Property is ranked 4,699th in the South Pacific and 101,121st in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -11 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and