Location: California

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Free Realms of Pure Thought is a gargantuan, genial nation, notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 21.927 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 the Environment, Education, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Athenai. The average income tax rate is 100%. 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.

A government program is underway to revitalize Pure Thought's beaches, the government funds large training centres to turn Oscillating Phoenixs into functioning members of society, citizens are frequently searched for illegal weapons, and citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pure Thought's national animal is the Oscillating Phoenix, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the platinum-clott.

Pure Thought is ranked 2nd in California and 423rd in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 47 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and