Location: Lazarus

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Democratic Socialist States of Glitter is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 947 million are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nature Towers. The average income tax rate is 96%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Businesses that prove successful are immediately broken up, meat is a luxury afforded only to the wealthy, Glitter's soft-touch approach to diplomacy has made it known as the 'push-over' of the region, and organ donation is compulsory. Crime is totally unknown. Glitter's national animal is the horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the gold coin.

Glitter is ranked 3,527th in Lazarus and 99,668th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -8 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and