Location: the Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Theocracy of Tinx is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its absence of drug laws. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 502 million enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The government -- a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass -- is mainly concerned with Social Welfare, although Education and Public Transport are secondary priorities. The average income tax rate is 37%, but much higher for the wealthy. A small but healthy private sector is dominated by the Retail industry.

Local executives are seen on the corner with cardboard signs reading "will oppress the masses for food", military funding has been stripped back, cars are banned, and guns are banned. Crime is relatively low. Tinx's national animal is the Humming Bird, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Lilly.

Tinx is ranked 3,161st in the Pacific and 73,443rd in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -1 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and