Location: the West Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Twin Turbine Engines of Offshore Racing is a massive, safe nation, ruled by High Executive Powerboat Racer with an even hand, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.551 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Social Welfare, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Carbon Fiber. The average income tax rate is 84%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Euthanasia is legal, an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, shanty towns are forming in the suburbs of major cities, and heavy industry must go to expensive lengths to dispose of waste. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Offshore Racing's national animal is the Cheetah, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Fuel.

Offshore Racing is ranked 4,042nd in the West Pacific and 95,468th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -27 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and