Location: Professor Hells Bot World

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Nomadic Peoples of Turnstile Number 1 is a colossal, economically powerful nation, ruled by President Turner with a fair hand, and remarkable for its compulsory vegetarianism. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 8.465 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is effectively ruled by the Department of Law & Order, with areas such as Social Welfare and the Environment receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of One Good Turn. The average income tax rate is 69%, 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.

A weakened police force struggles to maintain law and order, people are moving into treehouses in record numbers, students are wary of colorfully decorated new teachers with names like Professor Pipsqueak, and curtailed social programs have left many citizens bereft of any safety net. Crime is a problem. Turnstile Number 1's national animal is the eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Monotheism, and its currency is the unit.

Turnstile Number 1 is ranked 30th in Professor Hells Bot World and 51,439th in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 129 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and