Location: The North Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Estado Libre of Espana Japones is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Leader with a fair hand, and remarkable for its hatred of cheese. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 6.323 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Madrid. The average income tax rate is 100%. 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.

The government is making attempts at curtailing the flood of spam emails with little progress, citizens wishing to leave the country must surrender half their wealth to the government, all guns must be registered, and unstable couples are known to break up over which one gets parental leave. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Espana Japones's national animal is the tigre, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the peseta espanol.

Espana Japones is ranked 4,518th in The North Pacific and 99,742nd in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -9 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and