Location: Wysteria

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Rogue Nation of Thanle is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by One with a fair hand, and renowned for its hatred of cheese. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 5.913 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy 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, Social Welfare, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Thousand Streams. The average income tax rate is 100%. 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.

The latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, the nation has welcomed its expats back with open arms, welfare funding has recently gone through the roof, and high-income earners pay a 100% tax rate. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thanle's national animal is the tuatara, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the ekt.

Thanle is ranked 201st in Wysteria and 101,139th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -60 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and