Location: Keglen

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Sultanate of Pins is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Leader with a fair hand, and notable for its superstitious fear of technology. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 3.483 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Religion & Spirituality, with areas such as Healthcare and Social Welfare receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pins City. The average income tax rate is 85%, 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.

The government recently relinquished its monopoly on the mail service, the Toad is a protected species, the tenet of free speech is held dear, and psychological disorders are a taboo subject. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling. Pins's national animal is the Toad, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is a major religion, and its currency is the Golden Moose.

Pins is ranked 1st in Keglen and 12,890th in the world for Most Influential, scoring 32 on the Soft Power Disbursement Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and