Location: Portugal

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Sith Empire of Tiago Silva is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 15.637 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 concentrates mainly on Education, although Social Equality and Social Welfare are secondary priorities. 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 is avowedly atheist, same-sex marriages are increasingly common, the arms industry is strictly regulated, and pharmacies close down as medicinal drugs are sold freely by the government. 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 Rakling, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Credit.

Tiago Silva is ranked 10th in Portugal and 4,321st in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 6 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and