Location: The East Pacific

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

The Federated Alliance of Free Pacific States is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by President Christopher Arctoris with a fair hand, and notable for its restrictive gun laws. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 18.264 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Liberty City. The average income tax rate is 48%, but much 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.

Houses and businesses are bulldozed to make way for ever-expanding cemeteries, marijuana is legal in the privacy of your own home, all major public areas are watched by police surveillance cameras, and high-income earners pay a 100% tax rate. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling. Free Pacific States's national animal is the Whale, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Federate Credit.

Free Pacific States is ranked 2,246th in The East Pacific and 52,756th in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 127 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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