Location: the Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United States of Imaginary States is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Leader with a fair hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 910 million hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 62%. A robust private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Anti-government political posters adorn every building like wallpaper, conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings, all recreational drugs are legal, and the Imaginary States Automotive Racing Series draws millions of spectators annually while those near the tracks complain about the noise. Crime is totally unknown. Imaginary States's national animal is the Roshan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the bubies.

Imaginary States is ranked 3,133rd in the Pacific and 71,919th 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