Location: Federation of Nations

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Principality of Tharamin is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Prince Michael IX with a fair hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.305 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Education, and Defence. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Reyadin. The average income tax rate is 77%. 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 government is notorious for leaving citizens with almost nothing from their inheritance, reporters often lose their jobs over fact-checking errors, politicians constantly ring their voters to remind them how good a job they're doing, and houses and businesses are bulldozed to make way for ever-expanding cemeteries. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tharamin's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the florin.

Tharamin is ranked 18th in Federation of Nations and 85,805th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -19 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and