Location: Wysteria

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Commonwealth of Epona is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its museums and concert halls. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 20.225 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 is mainly concerned with Education, although the Environment and Social Equality are secondary priorities. The average income tax rate is 100%. A tiny private sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry.

Traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways, citizens are forced to donate blood once every three months, postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation, and same-sex marriages are increasingly common. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Epona's national animal is the horsie, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the ech.

Epona is ranked 72nd in Wysteria and 8,579th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 4 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and