Location: Lazarus

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Retired Sheep of Drop Your Pants is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Mr Sheep with an even hand, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed population of 15.403 billion 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, corrupt, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sheeptropolis. 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.

Prisoners work-share to cut down rising costs of keeping them in jail, the government has begun selling heroin and ecstasy to help fund its projects, the government pours millions of Dali's Patiences into rehabilitation programs annually, 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. Drop Your Pants's national animal is the Fluffy Sheep, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is The Sheeptastic Monks, and its currency is the Dali's Patience.

Drop Your Pants is ranked 2,149th in Lazarus and 71,258th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -1 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and