Location: League of Combined Nations

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The Sheep Farming Nation of Rice Lee is a massive, genial nation, notable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.538 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 devotes most of its attentions to Education, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Commerce receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The City of Shep Ta. The average income tax rate is 96%. 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.

Citizens are expected to be proficient in at least five languages, anti-government political posters adorn every building like wallpaper, all telephone traffic is monitored for 'national security reasons', and the tenet of free speech is held dear. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rice Lee's national animal is the Guanaco, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Mossite, and its currency is the Rice grain.

Rice Lee is ranked 1st in League of Combined Nations and 112,388th in the world for Largest Mining Sector, scoring -3 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and