Location: Libertae

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Dictatorship of Margherita is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its strong anti-business politics. Its compassionate, cynical population of 708 million are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Social Welfare, although Healthcare and Education are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Grácetown. The average income tax rate is 56%, and even higher for the wealthy. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Beef-Based Agriculture.

Margherita has designated Grácetown as its capital city, children have only the most basic of education, the government seizes private property for the 'good of the people', and Margherita's first free elections in recent memory have been successfully concluded. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Margherita's national animal is the Angelynx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Guardino.

Margherita is ranked 1st in Libertae and 38,445th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -11 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and