Location: Futaba Aoi

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The Environmental Protectorate of Steenia is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Cretor Lamjack with an even hand, and notable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 19.181 billion are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

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 the Environment, Education, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Willowsburg. 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.

Fewer people are bathing as citizens must show ration stamps before they can turn on their faucets, the average commuter spends four hours a day driving to and from work, Members of Parliament are often found living in cardboard boxes, and cars are banned. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Steenia's national animal is the flying squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the slapstick.

Steenia is ranked 2nd in Futaba Aoi and 29th in the world for Longest Average Lifespans, scoring 111 on the Enoch Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and