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Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Empire of Equity Nation Ship is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Leader with an iron fist, and notable for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 3.284 billion are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The government -- a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass -- juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Education, and Commerce. The average income tax rate is 35%, but much higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Cheese Exports, Tourism, and Automobile Manufacturing industries.

Citizens who leave the country are officially classed as traitors, corporations cut costs by taking away safety-features on their products, Leader has just been declared ruler of Equity Nation Ship in an international press conference, and the government funds private schools for intellectually gifted children. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Equity Nation Ship's national animal is the bull and bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is wealth, and its currency is the stock.

Equity Nation Ship is ranked 13th in And A Great Big Bushy Beard and 68,300th in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 10 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and