Location: Osiris

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Kingdom of Xyloin is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate population of 1.626 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Defence, although Social Equality and Social Welfare are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Felus. The average income tax rate is 56%, 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.

Loans are available for students from poor families, the nation's diplomatic missives are now delivered via sniper rifle, all alcohol is banned, and postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Xyloin's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Xylonn.

Xyloin is ranked 2,028th in Osiris and 78,782nd in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -17 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and