Location: The East Pacific

Overview • Factbook • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Free Land of Flintland is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Stacks Era with an iron fist, and renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.981 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Education, although the Environment and Social Equality are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Flintland City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 54%. 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.

Citizens who become homeless are immediately executed, soylent products are an expensive commodity due to a lack of volunteers, the government is attempting to impose a new national language on the public, and record sales of 'child-whacking sticks' have been reported. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Flintland's national animal is the emu, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the boozer.

Flintland is ranked 4,859th in The East Pacific and 126,959th in the world for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring -51 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and