Location: 10000 Islands

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The Dictatorship of Tristan da King is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Leader with an iron fist, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 1.665 billion are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Law & Order, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Social Welfare receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of King City. The average income tax rate is 92%. 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.

Public loudspeakers constantly tell citizens they are "happy people", political activists are routinely executed, urban high-volume mailers now receive their mail via chauffeur-driven limousines, and the government snoops on private internet connections. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tristan da King's national animal is the Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Tris.

Tristan da King is ranked 1,004th in 10000 Islands and 34,681st in the world for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 31 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and