Location: Louisiana

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The Paradoxical Summer Paradise of Nolaerie is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Sir Rocky Bulwinkle with a fair hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 20.825 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Equality, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Orleans. The average income tax rate is 6%, but much higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

The minority inevitably have their addenda vetoed, armed police units patrol the roads late at night, conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings, and the rich are forced to sell their cars to pay for more police to prevent their cars from being stolen. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Nolaerie's national animal is the graceful mercia, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Bokononism, and its currency is the picayune.

Nolaerie is ranked 3rd in Louisiana and 61,981st in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 116 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and