Location: Europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Community of Linkisheer is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by William Henry Allenby with an even hand, and renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate population of 6.957 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 is mainly concerned with Defence, although Social Welfare and Education are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lincoln. The average income tax rate is 76%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports industries.

Conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings, recruitment posters proclaim the army to be both fabulous and fashionable, the importance of winning Olympic gold medals is indoctrinated from an early age, and cars speed down national highways while drivers sleep at the wheel. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Linkisheer's national animal is the badger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Old Catholic Church, and its currency is the Pound.

Linkisheer is ranked 217th in Europe and 19,288th in the world for Longest Average Lifespans, scoring 21 on the Enoch Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and