Location: Kittyland

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Rogue Nation of Gumsylvania is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 572 million 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 juggles the competing demands of Education, Defence, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gumtown. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 57%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

Major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day, employers may fire workers without giving any reason, the lowest age at which one can marry has been recently lowered to 12, and most governmental positions are filled by zealous nationalists. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Gumsylvania's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Gum.

Gumsylvania is ranked 4th in Kittyland and 71,562nd in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -1 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and