Location: the South Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The People's Democratic Republic of Community Property is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 10.789 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 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 34th in the South Pacific and 1,688th in the world for Best Weather, with 182 Metres of Sunlight Above Expected.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and