Location: Kyzikos

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United Kingdom of Paper Flowers Mission is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 455 million 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lithium. The average income tax rate is 45%, but much higher for the wealthy. A small private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

Elevator music has been replaced by thrash metal played at maximum volume, conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings, the government pours millions of Origamis into rehabilitation programs annually, and the people are famous throughout the region for their bleached-white teeth. Crime is relatively low. Paper Flowers Mission's national animal is the Lotus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Origami.

Paper Flowers Mission is ranked 130th in Kyzikos and 60,076th in the world for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 3 on the Gilded Widget Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and