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Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Free Land of Pendelum Prime is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Logan Pendel with an even hand, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.862 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 Equality, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Logania. The average income tax rate is 82%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

Legislators work 24/7 due to an influx of single-issue bills, high-income earners pay a 100% tax rate, the government seizes all major gold finds, and the government spends millions of Pendels every year prosecuting spammers. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pendelum Prime's national animal is the Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Pendel.

Pendelum Prime is ranked 9th in 000 and 93,038th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -24 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and