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 national health service. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 8.496 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, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of the Environment, Education, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Madrid. The average income tax rate is 83%, 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.

Multiple polls have christened the newly-formed Filibuster Committee as "the least efficient government bureaucracy", there's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt, all guns must be registered, and cars are banned from built-up areas. 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 360th in The North Pacific and 7,739th in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 180 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and