Location: The East Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Community of Pax Flora is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Leader with an even hand, and notable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate population of 2.018 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pax City. The average income tax rate is 69%, and even higher for the wealthy. A nonexistent private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

All-natural foods are becoming a major fad, the fire protection service is wholly government-funded, the recently unemployed can often be seen at the local homeless shelter, and Leader has just been declared ruler of Pax Flora in an international press conference. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pax Flora's national animal is the Nightingale, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the token.

Pax Flora is ranked 3,765th in The East Pacific and 86,319th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -19 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and