Location: Panopticon

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

The Righteous and Holy Theocracy of Pratse is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 511 million have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Religion & Spirituality, the Environment, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Decapolis. The average income tax rate is 77%, 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.

Phone taps are frequently carried out by the police, local executives are seen on the corner with cardboard signs reading "will oppress the masses for food", most of the nation's wealthy aristocrats are dentists, and record sales of 'child-whacking sticks' have been reported. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pratse's national animal is the Garghole, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Sol.

Pratse is ranked 33rd in Panopticon and 46,453rd in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 135 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and