Location: Fata Morgana

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Cloud of Interstellar Dust is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its absence of drug laws. Its hard-nosed population of 9.284 billion enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government -- a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal morass -- concentrates mainly on Public Transport, although Law & Order and the Environment are on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 36%, but much higher for the wealthy. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Cheese Exports.

Billions of photons are being poured into a space program, space research funding has hit a recent high while several military bases are being closed down, space shuttles regularly launch rubbish into space, and UFO sightings are listed daily in the morning news. Crime is a problem. Interstellar Dust's national animal is the wild comet, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the photon.

Interstellar Dust is ranked 6th in Fata Morgana and 41,188th in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 140 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and