Location: The North Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Salty Dogs of Great Bights Mum is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its restrictive gun laws. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 16.311 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 devotes most of its attentions to Social Welfare, with areas such as Social Equality and Commerce receiving almost no funds by comparison. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 72%. 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.

Referenda can be called for any law at the request of at least one third of the voting population, artists are pillars of society, the government has cut taxes in the face of widespread tax evasion, and euthanasia is illegal. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Great Bights Mum's national animal is the whale, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the coupon.

Great Bights Mum is ranked 4,305th in The North Pacific and 93,201st 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