Location: Democratium

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Arihant is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate population of 513 million 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 juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Meta City. The average income tax rate is 71%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, followed by Book Publishing and Trout Farming.

Only the rich can afford the latest medical innovations, skateparks can be found in every city, every product goes through extensive safety-testing by the government, and traffic jams are a common sight due to construction work from a massive overhaul of the nation's freeways. Crime is totally unknown. Arihant's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Hugi.

Arihant is ranked 126th in Democratium and 17,892nd in the world for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 18 on the Gilded Widget Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and