Location: The North Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The People's Republic of Caponia is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its national health service. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 460 million are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Anchor Town. The average income tax rate is 22%. A large private sector is dominated by the Uranium Mining industry.

The study of medicine is popular throughout Caponia, televangelists flaunt their expensive cars when they attend charity events, the arms industry is strictly regulated, and citizens select which government department gets their income tax Farons each year. Crime is relatively low. Caponia's national animal is the Flying Pig, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the Faron.

Caponia is ranked 4,112th in The North Pacific and 87,637th in the world for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring -7 on the Gilded Widget Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and