Location: Canada

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The Empire of The Peoples Republic of Michael is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Mohandas Gandhi with a fair hand, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 1.485 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 Education, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Brian Wilson. The average income tax rate is 60%, and even higher for the wealthy. A healthy private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Euthanasia is legal, the government awards prizes to television shows featuring stereotype-breaking minority roles, orphanages are closing their doors as the government forces parents to actually raise their children, and students are known to arrive at school in their pyjamas. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Peoples Republic of Michael's national animal is the Freddie Mercury, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Ethnocentrism, and its currency is the YOLO.

The Peoples Republic of Michael is ranked 72nd in Canada and 48,471st in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 132 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and