Location: Secular Sevens

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United Socialist States of Paragade is a massive, economically powerful nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.958 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Skyrim. The average income tax rate is 94%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

The government helps teach children how to kill a man from six paces, artists are pillars of society, drunk drivers are sent to rehabilitation paid for by the government, and most of the nation's wealthy aristocrats are dentists. Crime is totally unknown. Paragade's national animal is the Dragon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Dollar.

Paragade is ranked 18th in Secular Sevens and 97,976th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -32 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and