Location: Periphery

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Airborne Flock of Migrating Geese is a gargantuan, devout nation, ruled by Head Goose with an even hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 17.805 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, the Environment, and Public Transport. The average income tax rate is 35%. 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.

The people are furious with the government for allowing citizens to be executed for petty crimes in foreign countries, euthanasia is legal, the government has ordered a moratorium on referenda, and penurious citizens die from easily remedied ailments because they aren't 'taking enough initiative'. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Migrating Geese's national animal is the feathered friend, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the nest egg.

Migrating Geese is ranked 90,972nd in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -4 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and