Location: Persian Tricycle Riders

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Misunderstood Dictatorship of Galloism is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Master Chief with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 12.616 billion are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Galloism City. The average income tax rate is 95%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Gambling industries.

Pharmacies close down as medicinal drugs are sold freely by the government, homeless people are periodically found dead upon altars to assorted deities, the government is seen to favor Catholics, and manual labourers must be willing to have cybernetic limbs to get a job. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Galloism's national animal is the mammoth, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is The Galloismic Way, and its currency is the rupee.

Galloism is ranked 6th in Persian Tricycle Riders and 94,198th in the world for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring -264 on the Kitten Softness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and