Location: Hampshire

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Community of The medical college is a huge, socially progressive nation, notable for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate population of 597 million are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government -- a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass -- juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The medical college City. The average income tax rate is 38%, but much 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.

The minority inevitably have their addenda vetoed, the government is notorious for leaving citizens with almost nothing from their inheritance, traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways, and suit-clad businessmen have been taking advantage of the relaxed welfare qualifications by shopping with food stamps. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown. The medical college's national animal is the timber wolf, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the coin.

The medical college is ranked 40th in Hampshire and 44,023rd in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -12 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and