Location: the South Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Confederacy of Unified Territories is a gargantuan, genial nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 20.302 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of the Environment, Social Equality, and Social Welfare. The average income tax rate is 100%. 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.

An increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, children are sent to either religious or secular schools, elections have become procedural nightmares due to voters persistently rejecting candidates, and even the most lowly council pen-pusher has the same political power as a senior minister. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Unified Territories's national animal is the great grey owl, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the k-script.

Unified Territories is ranked 4,718th in the South Pacific and 101,043rd in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -57 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and