Location: Gatesville

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Confederacy of Gate Fences Make Gates is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its strong anti-business politics. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 2.768 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The government -- a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass -- is mainly concerned with Social Welfare, although Education and Healthcare are secondary priorities. The average income tax rate is 36%. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Pizza Delivery.

Voting is voluntary. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is relatively low. Gate Fences Make Gates's national animal is the slat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the buckaroo.

Gate Fences Make Gates is ranked 2nd in Gatesville and 60,245th 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