Location: Circle of Badularity

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Vista of New Tiger Stripes is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Smiling Tiger with an even hand, and notable for its anti-smoking policies. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 9.294 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, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Defence. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Cave. The average income tax rate is 91%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Information Technology industries.

Politicians have to be granted day-release from prison to speak on bills, politicians are to be found scavenging bins at night to supplement their income, the "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The The Cave Times is sold out, and priests are being drafted by the church load. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Tiger Stripes's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is The Cult of the Smiling Tiger, and its currency is the stripe.

New Tiger Stripes is ranked 19th in Circle of Badularity and 34,908th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 2 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and