Location: Middle Earth

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Reptilian Rage of Gamera is a gargantuan, genial nation, remarkable for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, cynical population of 19.593 billion are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Defence. The average income tax rate is 48%, but much higher for the wealthy. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Soda Sales.

Vegetarianism is compulsory, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, a dictator has seized power and outlawed elections, and political activists are routinely executed. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown. Gamera's national animal is the turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the shell.

Gamera is ranked 5th in Middle Earth and 55,404th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 0 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and