The Gandsen Archipelago

The United Federation Colony of Gandsen Archipelago is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate population of 1.469 billion 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.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Defence, Social Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 30%, but much higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Pizza Delivery, Soda Sales, and Information Technology industries.

Military spending recently hit a new high, the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one, military spending is on the increase, and an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown. Gandsen Archipelago's national animal is the trout, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the maxedon dollar.

 Colonization

Since 1774, the Gandsen Archipelago was a formal province of Maxedon. Starting in 1950, The Gandsen Archipelago broke away from the Maxedonian Empire, along with Trache to form the "The Federation of Former Maxedonian Colonies". But then, Maxedonian Emperor Jake Emboss, grandfather of the current President, led a 2-million-man strong army into Trache, and quickly conquered it. Then, in 1960, F-4 Phantoms started carpet bombing the Gandsen Capital and it's major cities. Soon enough, ICBMs were launched with non-nuclear warheads and all the Gandsen-Loyalist military bases. With the breakaway republic in shambles, the Emperor led, this time, a 5-million-man army against the 20-million-man army of the Gandsen Archipelago. Soon enough, the well-trained Maxedonian Army steamrolled the Gandsen Army and besieged Kjaarven, the capital of the Archipelago.Then, by order of the Emperor, the city was hit by a non-nuclear 5-kiloton warhead, effectively destroying what was left of the breakaway province.

 Today

Today, the Gandsen Archipelago is a province of the United Federation, and is a booming tourist spot for the Global Powers.