Location: Balder

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United Isles of Pai Lei is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by Prime Minister Jean Zuju with a fair hand, and remarkable for its unlimited-speed roads. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 3.725 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lue Mio City. The average income tax rate is 46%, but much higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Photographers can be found hiding behind the curtains in Prime Minister Jean Zuju's bedroom, citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits, religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else, and the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pai Lei's national animal is the lobster, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Tai.

Pai Lei is ranked 1,804th in Balder and 88,736th in the world for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring -64 on the Kitten Softness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and