Location: The URAP

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Anablephobia of Straight Arm Salute is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 12.39 billion are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

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 17th in The URAP and 89,840th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -3 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and