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Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Confederacy of Saundie is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Dr Cakeston with a fair hand, and renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 8.879 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, the Environment, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cakeston. The average income tax rate is 53%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

Politicians constantly ring their voters to remind them how good a job they're doing, protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations, citizens who become homeless are immediately executed, and droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Saundie's national animal is the cheesecake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the cheesecake.

Saundie is ranked 68th in Lazarus and 1,552nd in the world for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 192 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and