Location: The Cooperative Nations of Chatalia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Five is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Queen Five with a fair hand, and remarkable for its hatred of cheese. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 3.447 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 Education, Social Equality, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Place Where Stuff Happens. The average income tax rate is 82%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

Expensive lawyers are hired to defend citizens in court for public urination charges against their pets, organ donation rates have hit a new low, Max Barry is this year's Miss Five, and the public health bureaucracy is wrapped in miles of red tape. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Five's national animal is the Platypus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Fives.

Five is ranked 2nd in The Cooperative Nations of Chatalia and 122,026th in the world for Largest Mining Sector, scoring -5 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.

View Forum posts

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and