Location: Manitoba

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The People's Theocracy of United Good is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by the Reverend Al Greene with a fair hand, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 12.244 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Defence, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Soul City. The average income tax rate is 93%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day, crowds of flag-burning protesters tend to accidentally become crowds of burning protesters, the people of United Good are renowned for their nihilistic attitudes, and political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. United Good's national animal is the timber wolf, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Truth, and its currency is the Good Dollar.

United Good is ranked 2nd in Manitoba and 54,239th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 18 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and