Location: the Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Free Land of Ponis is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Leader with an even hand, and renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.355 billion enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and the Environment. The average income tax rate is 90%, 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.

Same-sex marriages are increasingly common, the number of students attending university has reached a record high, the nation is experiencing a severe shortage of sporting events, and politicians are often found scavenging bins at night to supplement their income. Crime is totally unknown. Ponis's national animal is the Horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Bit.

Ponis is ranked 4,809th in the Pacific and 123,118th in the world for Largest Mining Sector, scoring -5 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and