Location: The East Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Sovereign Nation of Sun Fire Dragon is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Sun Fire Dragon with a fair hand, and renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.169 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Atlantis. The average income tax rate is 64%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Recruitment posters proclaim the army to be both fabulous and fashionable, government officials frequently cut taxes as a distraction from antics with their secretaries, politicians are to be found scavenging bins at night to supplement their income, and the government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sun Fire Dragon's national animal is the Dragon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Amalgamation, and its currency is the Fire Stone.

Sun Fire Dragon is ranked 4,004th in The East Pacific and 92,559th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -23 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and