Location: Great Britain and Ireland

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Flagpost of Signation is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 9.267 billion are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Social Welfare, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Law & Order receiving almost no funds by comparison. The average income tax rate is 57%, and even higher for the wealthy. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Beef-Based Agriculture.

Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown. Signation's national animal is the Meow-Maker, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Entertaining Story.

Signation is ranked 1st in Great Britain and Ireland and 15,667th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -8 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and