Location: Canada

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Free Land of Laughterandsunshine is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate population of 13.448 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Social Welfare, although Defence and Law & Order are on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 76%. A large private sector is dominated by the Automobile Manufacturing industry.

An enormous health awareness programme is underway, expensive lawyers are hired to defend citizens in court for public urination charges against their pets, Laughterandsunshine is notorious for its citizens' infidelity, and schools have extensive counseling programs for troubled students. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Laughterandsunshine's national animal is the German Shepherd, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Dough.

Laughterandsunshine is ranked 122nd in Canada and 48,212th in the world for Most Politically Free, scoring 55 on the Diebold Election Inking Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and