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The Empire of Great Ashes is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 1.624 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 Defence, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 54%, and even higher for the wealthy. A healthy private sector is led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, followed by Arms Manufacturing and Book Publishing.

Abortions are routinely performed in Great Ashes's hospitals, Members of Parliament operate under a PAYE scheme, the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one, and the upper class have been throwing riots after hunting was recently banned. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Great Ashes's national animal is the Kiwi, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Quid.

Great Ashes is ranked 5th in 1st Duke Cornwalls Light Infantry and 107,714th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 10 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and