Location: SideWalk Zone

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Colony of New Tropical Isles is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Jay Myers with an even hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 2.327 billion are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Shadowville. The average income tax rate is 98%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Tourism industry, followed by Book Publishing and Woodchip Exports.

The new 'Things We Stole From Other Countries' exhibition at the National Museum of Antiquities is a hit, waste is frequently shipped to other countries, motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours, and the people are famous throughout the region for their bleached-white teeth. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Tropical Isles's national animal is the cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Christianity, and its currency is the Platinum Dollar.

New Tropical Isles is ranked 4th in SideWalk Zone and 2,362nd in the world for Healthiest Citizens, with 15 Standard Bananas Ingested per capita per day.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and