Location: Portugal

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Superior Blackness of Tiago Silva is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, notable for its ban on automobiles. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 14.966 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, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Education, although Social Equality and Social Welfare are on the agenda. 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 government extracts trade concessions from poor nations in exchange for humanitarian aid, long arduous trials are held for the most trivial of offences, the breathalyser pledge is a traditional part of marriages in Tiago Silva, and conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tiago Silva's national animal is the panther, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the zulu.

Tiago Silva is ranked 7th in Portugal and 4,853rd in the world for Most Politically Free, scoring 82 on the Diebold Election Inking Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and