Location: The Internationale

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Forest of The Singing Tigers is a massive, cultured nation, notable for its ban on automobiles. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 3.494 billion enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

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 54%, 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.

Elections are outlawed and a hairstylist has recently received a government appointment, territories have the right to secede if they aren't happy, teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, and even the most lowly council pen-pusher has the same political power as a senior minister. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Singing Tigers's national animal is the Snow Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Embrace.

The Singing Tigers is ranked 204th in The Internationale and 45,110th in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 13 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and