Location: The North Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Salty Dogs of Great Bights Mum is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, renowned for its restrictive gun laws. Its hard-working population of 18.501 billion are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

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 73%. 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 474th in The North Pacific and 13,472nd in the world for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 54 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and