Location: The Proletariat Coalition

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Free Land of Timao is a gargantuan, cultured nation, notable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 16.497 billion are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Social Welfare. 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 helps teach children how to kill a man from six paces, 'The Anti-Government Hour' is a popular programme on many of Timao's radio stations, surveillance cameras are banned, and religious figures have been banned from public holidays to make them more multicultural. Crime is totally unknown. Timao's national animal is the hawk, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the none.

Timao is ranked 21st in The Proletariat Coalition and 101,485th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -130 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and