Location: the Rejected Realms

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Cannabis Farmers' Collective of Fomer Soviet Gaymenia is a massive, safe nation, ruled by RuPaul Rhod with a fair hand, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 2.078 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defence. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Stoned Mountain. The average income tax rate is 84%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Tourism industry, followed by Gambling and Arms Manufacturing.

Nude art is becoming wildly popular, the upper class have been throwing riots after hunting was recently banned, teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, and anti-government web sites are springing up. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fomer Soviet Gaymenia's national animal is the Bluebird of Happiness, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Church of the Holy Smoke, and its currency is the Dime Bag.

Fomer Soviet Gaymenia is ranked 1,212th in the Rejected Realms and 93,585th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -5 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and