Location: Pepperland

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Lonely Hearts Club Band of Sargent Pepper is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its strong anti-business politics. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 7.378 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Education, although Social Welfare and the Environment are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of PepperLand. The average income tax rate is 68%, 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.

Students are wary of colorfully decorated new teachers with names like Professor Pipsqueak, the government is spending millions on renovating the public transportation system, the government is pouring money into 'Operation Enduring Democracy', and prime commercial land is being swamped with archaeological teams. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sargent Pepper's national animal is the Pepper Land Walrus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is The Brotherhood of Man, and its currency is the All you need is Love.

Sargent Pepper is ranked 1st in Pepperland and 29,056th in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 15 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and