Location: The North Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Federation of Lookingafterourselves is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 3.271 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Education, although Social Welfare and Healthcare are on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 73%, and even higher for the wealthy. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Bizarre-looking creatures called 'Llamadogs' dominate wildlife preserves, multiple polls have christened the newly-formed Filibuster Committee as "the least efficient government bureaucracy", punitive tariffs protect local industry, and even the most lowly council pen-pusher has the same political power as a senior minister. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lookingafterourselves's national animal is the Llama, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Point.

Lookingafterourselves is ranked 1,294th in The North Pacific and 26,187th in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 155 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and