Location: Taijitu

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Commonwealth of Gullivania is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Gulliver with a fair hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 5.091 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 Education, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gulliverona. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 30%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Book Publishing, Tourism, and Soda Sales industries.

Ethnic minorities are often refused admission to some of the nation's best schools, urban high-volume mailers now receive their mail via chauffeur-driven limousines, the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit, and senior citizens can usually be found doing heavy manual labour. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is moderate. Gullivania's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the gulliverin.

Gullivania is ranked 24th in Taijitu and 12,117th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 3 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and