Location: Europe

Overview • Factbook • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Federal Republic of Pileusia is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by Chancellor James Malick with a fair hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.662 billion are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

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, Defence, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Post Liberté. The average income tax rate is 97%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, followed by Tourism and Book Publishing.

College students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, bizarre-looking creatures called 'Beardogs' dominate wildlife preserves, 'The Anti-Government Hour' is a popular programme on many of Pileusia's radio stations, and the nation is reliant on the principle of mutually assured destruction to maintain its security. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pileusia's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Pileusian Dollar.

Pileusia is ranked 101st in Europe and 21,555th in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 160 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and