Location: 10000 Islands

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Gateborg is a gargantuan, genial nation, notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 15.6 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 Law & Order, Social Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 84%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

A National Academy regulates grammar and usage, the space program has been scrapped in order to focus on more terrestrial pursuits, corporations donate huge sums of money to favored politicians, and protests are legal but strictly supervised. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gateborg's national animal is the tiger, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the krona.

Gateborg is ranked 1,880th in 10000 Islands and 94,318th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -5 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and