Location: The URAP

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Anablephobia of Straight Arm Salute is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 11.758 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and the Environment. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 63%. A robust private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Corporations are either above the law or corrupting it, Straight Arm Salute is notorious for its citizens' infidelity, jails have become colloquially known as 'vampire houses', and teenage fathers are forced to join the army. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Straight Arm Salute's national animal is the American Bald Eagle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the American Dollar.

Straight Arm Salute is ranked 1st in The URAP and 8,416th in the world for Best Weather, with 48 Metres of Sunlight Above Expected.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and