Location: Digibooty

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Kaleidoscopic Island of Paintal is a massive, genial nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 3.153 billion enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hanau. The average income tax rate is 61%, and even higher for the wealthy. A small private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

Students are wary of colorfully decorated new teachers with names like Professor Pipsqueak, religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else, prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators, and kids laugh off vandalism and arson as "just fun". Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Paintal's national animal is the rhino, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the rangi.

Paintal is ranked 2nd in Digibooty and 17,090th in the world for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring 4 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and