Location: Tropical Isles

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Colony of Key Atlantis is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by Jay Myers with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 2.64 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Commerce, Education, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Madrid. The average income tax rate is 98%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Tourism industry, followed by Book Publishing and Woodchip Exports.

Every product goes through extensive safety-testing by the government, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, people reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight, and motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Key Atlantis's national animal is the cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Christianity, and its currency is the Platinum Dollar.

Key Atlantis is ranked 16th in Tropical Isles and 34,763rd in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 147 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and