Location: the West Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Greg Tucker is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by President with a fair hand, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 14.157 billion are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Public Transport, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mill City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 2%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, followed by Information Technology and Retail.

'The Anti-Government Hour' is a popular programme on many of Greg Tucker's radio stations, the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, citizens are frequently held up at gunpoint by their local pizza delivery boys, and citizens must pay to enjoy Greg Tucker's pristine beaches. Crime is relatively low, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Greg Tucker's national animal is the monkey, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the tuckerran.

Greg Tucker is ranked 53rd in the West Pacific and 2,886th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 7 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and