Location: Canada

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Swiss Cheese Confederacy of Cowland5 is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by President Juliana Bergerson with an even hand, and remarkable for its absence of drug laws. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 7.874 billion enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Equality, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cowtopolis. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 41%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Gambling industry, followed by Book Publishing and Tourism.

Max Barry is this year's Miss Cowland5, protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations, absentminded citizens frequently converse with hallucinations, and all recreational drugs are legal. Crime is totally unknown. Cowland5's national animal is the cow, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the cowmark.

Cowland5 is ranked 154th in Canada and 89,957th in the world for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring -78 on the Kitten Softness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and