Location: The North Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United Socialist States of Span is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by M Shobacus Maz with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 22.289 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded individuals juggles the competing demands of Education, Public Transport, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Maz. The average income tax rate is 8%, but much higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Artists are pillars of society, inheritance tax has recently been abolished, the public health bureaucracy is wrapped in miles of red tape, and the populace harbors a fierce hatred of the metric system. Crime is totally unknown. Span's national animal is the donkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the spanny.

Span is ranked 2,391st in The North Pacific and 49,556th in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 131 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and