Location: Wonderful Paradise

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Federation of Fashion Retail Academy is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its strong anti-business politics. Its hard-nosed population of 3.737 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The minute, corrupt government, or what there is of one, is mainly concerned with Law & Order, although Defence and Commerce are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fashion Retail Academy City. Income tax is unheard of. 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.

Skateboarding is punishable by heavy fines, women who display their ankles are shunned by society, protests are legal but strictly supervised, and senior citizens can usually be found doing heavy manual labour. Crime is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Fashion Retail Academy's national animal is the RAF, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the FRA.

Fashion Retail Academy is ranked 11th in Wonderful Paradise and 121,467th in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 2 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and