Location: the Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Benign Republic of Tubbsalot is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by a bizarre upright ant with a fair hand, and notable for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 7.825 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Equality, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Formicidia. The average income tax rate is 68%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry.

Organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region, cyber-crime and tin-foil hat sales are both increasing at record rates, the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one, and people are now classified as male, female, or genderqueer. Crime is totally unknown. Tubbsalot's national animal is the lover of fine art, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the snuckle.

Tubbsalot is ranked 214th in the Pacific and 8,735th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 4 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and