Location: The Emirates of Teaurnian States

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Dest is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 740 million are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Religion & Spirituality, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Utopia. The average income tax rate is 77%, and even higher for the wealthy. A very small private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

The government extracts trade concessions from poor nations in exchange for humanitarian aid, people regularly disappear off the streets and all evidence of them is destroyed, the Pit Bull is a protected species, and political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dest's national animal is the Pit Bull, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Gold.

Dest is ranked 28th in The Emirates of Teaurnian States and 93,589th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -5 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and