Location: The Unstable Culture

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Earth-Mother Leadership of Tree Women is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its happy-go-lucky citizens. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.791 billion enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to the Environment, with areas such as Defence and Law & Order receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of the forest. The average income tax rate is 81%, 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.

Tree Women successfully hosted the The Unstable Culture Olympics, inter-species marriages are ignored by the government, businesses are scrambling to adapt to the government's mandate that 'time and measurement no longer exist', and the mining industry has taken a hit from tighter environmental regulations. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Tree Women's national animal is the wild redwood, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is cult of the forest spirits, and its currency is the tree nut.

Tree Women is ranked 29th in The Unstable Culture and 100,337th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -44 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and