Location: Portugal

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Sith Empire of Tiago Silva is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, notable for its ban on automobiles. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 15.589 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 is mainly concerned with Education, although Social Equality and Social Welfare are on the agenda. 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.

Prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators, the number of students attending university has reached a record high, citizens are expected to be proficient in at least five languages, and Members of Parliament are often found living in cardboard boxes. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tiago Silva's national animal is the Rakling, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Credit.

Tiago Silva is ranked 31st in Portugal and 15,230th in the world for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 21 on the Gilded Widget Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and