Location: The North Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Federation of Lookingafterourselves is a massive, genial nation, remarkable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.108 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 67%, and even higher for the wealthy. A healthy private sector is dominated by the Automobile Manufacturing industry.

Citizens recently voted in favour of declaring bubblewrap an 'abomination of nature', mining safety laws are often more expensive than what's being mined, houses and businesses are bulldozed to make way for ever-expanding cemeteries, and most citizens in Lookingafterourselves are abject pyrophobes after extremely graphic pamphlets were mailed nationwide by the government. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded 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 4,165th in The North Pacific and 89,958th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -21 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and