Location: Pony Lands

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Pony Republic of Equestrian States is a huge, cultured nation, ruled by Lord Artemis and Lord Solaris with an even hand, and remarkable for its compulsory vegetarianism. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 914 million enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Education, and Defence. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Canterlot. The average income tax rate is 81%, and even higher for the wealthy. A healthy private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

Artists are pillars of society, photographers can be found hiding behind the curtains in Lord Artemis and Lord Solaris's bedroom, the government funds large training centres to turn Ponys into functioning members of society, and children are brainwashed at a young age to accept "Love and peace!" as a way of life. Crime is totally unknown. Equestrian States's national animal is the Pony, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Bit.

Equestrian States is ranked 75th in Pony Lands and 57,923rd in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 0 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and