Location: The New Galactic Republic

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Pragmatic Optimization of SkaMs is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Pragmatobot with a fair hand, and remarkable for its absence of drug laws. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 4.264 billion live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Equality, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Optimapolis. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 22%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry.

Crime is on the rise as DNA sampling has been all but outlawed, crowds of flag-burning protesters tend to accidentally become crowds of burning protesters, there's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt, and prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators. Crime is relatively low. SkaMs's national animal is the squirrel, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the buck.

SkaMs is ranked 59th in The New Galactic Republic and 99,260th in the world for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring -11 on the Gilded Widget Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and