Location: Ganja

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Pot Smokers of Sweet Island Skunk Marijuana is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Marijuana Horticulturist with a fair hand, and notable for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.591 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, liberal, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Secret Greenhouse. The average income tax rate is 73%, and even higher for the wealthy. 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.

Most of the nation's wealthy aristocrats are dentists, students are known to arrive at school in their pyjamas, the government recently relinquished its monopoly on the mail service, and recent protests against birds flying too low have resulted in bloodshed. Crime is well under control. Sweet Island Skunk Marijuana's national animal is the dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Marijuana, and its currency is the ounce.

Sweet Island Skunk Marijuana is ranked 1st in Ganja and 11,367th in the world for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 61 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and