Location: Europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The People's Republic of Trinitia is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 692 million are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Hive. The average income tax rate is 37%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology industry, followed by Pizza Delivery and Door-to-door Insurance Sales.

Private business has started paving paradises and putting up parking lots, a typical fast food menu item could serve a small army, citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes, and the nation's infamous boot camp is more brutal than most battlefields. Crime is relatively low, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Trinitia's national animal is the mongoose, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the credit.

Trinitia is ranked 242nd in Europe and 72,427th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -15 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and