Location: Conflation

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Floating Island of Zimbada is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by El Jefe with a fair hand, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 22.735 billion are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

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 Social Equality. 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.

Radio shows frequently feature people denouncing religion, abortions are routinely performed in Zimbada's hospitals, the tenet of free speech is held dear, and the sound of wooden legs echo throughout Zimbada after the recent introduction of the Foot Tax. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zimbada's national animal is the Wyrm, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Pelt.

Zimbada is ranked 1st in Conflation and 1,060th in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 199 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and