Location: The North Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Free Land of Lovers in the Summer time is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by Leader with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.934 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 juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Social Welfare, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lovers in the Summer time City. The average income tax rate is 69%, 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.

Shanty towns have formed around the newly rebuilt commercial district, the LITSTBI Channel Tunnel project is plagued by delays, the government is a clear-cut case of tyranny by majority, and the airship business has been driven out of the country by strict regulations and high fines. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lovers in the Summer time's national animal is the Breezy, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is a major religion, and its currency is the Gaga.

Lovers in the Summer time is ranked 3,823rd in The North Pacific and 82,167th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -18 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and