Location: The East Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Cortexiphan Kids of Free Underwear Fliers is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by 37sneaker with an even hand, and notable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 5.556 billion are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Defence, although Commerce and Education are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wammy's House. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 63%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology industry, followed by Arms Manufacturing and Gambling.

Prison visits increase substantially during election years, radio shows frequently feature people denouncing religion, Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity, and the breathalyser pledge is a traditional part of marriages in Free Underwear Fliers. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling. Free Underwear Fliers's national animal is the baboon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is the Capitalistic Profit Motive, and its currency is the type.

Free Underwear Fliers is ranked 3,942nd in The East Pacific and 102,106th in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 67 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and