Location: Liberty

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Jungle warfare of My Secret Garden is a colossal, economically powerful nation, renowned for its enforced nudity. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 5.292 billion are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Banana Tree City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 67%. A large private sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry.

It is illegal to own a mobile phone, the government snoops on private internet connections, gambling addicts regularly lose their families' nest eggs at Native My Secret Gardenite casinos, and small businesses are gobbled up almost daily by corporate giants. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. My Secret Garden's national animal is the cheese, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the daffodil.

My Secret Garden is ranked 8th in Liberty and 74,398th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -1 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and