Location: The North Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Wilkshire is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by President Paul Williams with an even hand, and remarkable for its happy-go-lucky citizens. Its compassionate population of 21.603 billion are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of the Environment, Education, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Westbury. 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.

Military geniuses responsible for brilliant campaigns are drummed out because they have close same-sex friends and an interest in interior design, murder victims' families receive windfall payouts when the murderers are executed, the nation's massive battleships are often mistaken for islands, and prisoners work-share to cut down rising costs of keeping them in jail. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wilkshire's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the wilko.

Wilkshire is ranked 6th in The North Pacific and 204th in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 56 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and