Location: The North Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Dictatorship of Relativism of New-Magrathea is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Kaili Brainsucker with a fair hand, and renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 4.165 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Education, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Defence receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Important City. The average income tax rate is 59%, 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.

Expensive lawyers are hired to defend citizens in court for public urination charges against their pets, all-natural foods are becoming a major fad, calling out of the blue has become taboo, and 'The Anti-Government Hour' is a popular programme on many of New-Magrathea's radio stations. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New-Magrathea's national animal is the Omnipotent Frog, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Pastafarianism, and its currency is the Schlonz.

New-Magrathea is ranked 4,384th in The North Pacific and 95,349th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -5 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and