Location: The North Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Ischaemia is a colossal, economically powerful nation, ruled by Leader with a fair hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 6.187 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 is mainly concerned with Education, although Social Equality and Healthcare are on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 24%, but much higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes, private business has started paving paradises and putting up parking lots, fewer people are bathing as citizens must show ration stamps before they can turn on their faucets, and violently opinionated speakers can be heard preaching their hateful views on every street corner. Crime is totally unknown. Ischaemia's national animal is the cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the peso.

Ischaemia is ranked 4,476th in The North Pacific and 98,258th 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