Location: Rotuma Island

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Dominion of Rotuma Island is a gargantuan, genial nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 13.061 billion are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Social Welfare, although Education and Healthcare are secondary priorities. The average income tax rate is 71%, 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.

All industry is owned and run by the government, surveillance cameras are banned, high-income earners pay a 100% tax rate, and the tenet of free speech is held dear. Crime is well under control. Rotuma Island's national animal is the sea gull, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the dollar.

Rotuma Island is ranked 1st in Rotuma Island and 61,229th in the world for Most Influential, scoring 9 on the Soft Power Disbursement Rating.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and