Location: Alberta

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Principality of Mountain Ranger is a massive, devout nation, remarkable for its strong anti-business politics. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 1.558 billion are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Law & Order, and Religion & Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 43%, but much higher for the wealthy. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Gambling.

Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mountain Ranger's national animal is the Horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Horse.

Mountain Ranger is ranked 5th in Alberta and 37,585th 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