Location: Wysteria

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Community of Tagete is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.667 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Social Equality. The average income tax rate is 68%, 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.

Cheese has become the new icon of political dissent, tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests, the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one, and organ donation rates have hit a new low. Crime is totally unknown. Tagete's national animal is the Squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Dinaro.

Tagete is ranked 161st in Wysteria and 91,716th 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