Location: The North Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Avonakia is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 714 million have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Education, although Law & Order and Defence are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Minerva . The average income tax rate is 64%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Book Publishing, Pizza Delivery, and Tourism industries.

Schoolchildren have twice-weekly sex education classes, waste is frequently shipped to other countries, bizarre-looking creatures called 'Golden Spotted Lynxdogs' dominate wildlife preserves, and research into 'designer babies' is banned. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Avonakia's national animal is the Golden Spotted Lynx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Lira .

Avonakia is ranked 2,146th in The North Pacific and 47,266th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 2 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and