Location: New Jersey

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The Rehabilitation Center of Spray Can Inhalation is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Allison with an even hand, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles. Its compassionate population of 1.61 billion enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Interventionland. The average income tax rate is 74%, 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 Book Publishing.

The government is avowedly atheist, the Navy has outraged the international community by sinking a boatload of refugees to prevent them reaching the shore, it is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws, and the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly. Crime is totally unknown. Spray Can Inhalation's national animal is the kitty kat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the duster.

Spray Can Inhalation is ranked 8th in New Jersey and 89,102nd in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -21 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and