Location: Hippiedom

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Community of St Stephen n Critters is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its hatred of cheese. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 15.806 billion are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

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 Education, the Environment, and Social Welfare. The average income tax rate is 100%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Teenagers across the country are celebrating the defeat of a national curfew bill, the people elect the Supreme Court justices directly, St Stephen n Critters's educational system is the envy of many and regarded as a pinnacle of academic achievement, and surveillance cameras are banned. Crime is totally unknown. St Stephen n Critters's national animal is the Dancing Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Jerry Berry.

St Stephen n Critters is ranked 78th in Hippiedom and 101,457th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -99 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and