Location: the Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Confusion of Equalitia is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its restrictive gun laws. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.101 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Equality, the Environment, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of old american spirit. The average income tax rate is 78%, and even higher for the wealthy. 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.

Parents must choose their children's names from a government-mandated master list, elderly citizens regularly buy posh multimillion-leaf mansions, museums stand half-empty as all foreign exhibits are returned to their countries of origin, and the armed forces are locked in an expensive and bloody war abroad to stamp out possible terrorists. Crime is well under control. Equalitia's national animal is the bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the leaf.

Equalitia is ranked 3,728th in the Pacific and 87,418th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -3 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and