Location: Scandinavia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Commonwealth of Pacificana is a massive, socially progressive nation, renowned for its strong anti-business politics. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.257 billion are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Education, although Social Welfare and the Environment are on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 92%, 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.

Teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, students cut up leftover Monetary Units during Arts and Crafts, the capybara is a protected species, and Capybara is one of the most popular forenames in Pacificana. Crime is totally unknown. Pacificana's national animal is the capybara, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Monetary Unit.

Pacificana is ranked 78th in Scandinavia and 96,295th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -28 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and