Location: Philippines

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United Socialist States of Paldrov is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Aliana Almazan with an even hand, and remarkable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate population of 2.998 billion are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Paldrov City. 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.

Schools have extensive counseling programs for troubled students, the wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned, tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests, and a primitive society is being eroded as its youth flock to the modern world. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Paldrov's national animal is the bobcat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Christianity, and its currency is the geld.

Paldrov is ranked 32nd in Philippines and 97,810th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -31 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and