Location: Europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Dominion of Solar Atlantic is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Premier Otto von Stig with an even hand, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed population of 4.064 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Exeter. The average income tax rate is 90%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology industry, followed by Beef-Based Agriculture and Arms Manufacturing.

UFO sightings are listed daily in the morning news, Animal Liberationists are regularly jailed, the government funds large training centres to turn lions into functioning members of society, and torture is commonly used to extract information from suspected criminals. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Solar Atlantic's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Atheism, and its currency is the ruble.

Solar Atlantic is ranked 273rd in Europe and 77,953rd in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -16 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and