The People's Republic of Gainesville Florida is a tiny, safe nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 10 million Alachuans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 69.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The basket case Gainesville Floridan economy, worth 170 billion Kromers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 17,014 Kromers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Every week is blindness awareness week, the mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas, marijuana is legal in the privacy of your own home, and voting is compulsory. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gainesville Florida's national animal is the Gator, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gainesville Florida is ranked 43,617^th in the world and 24^th in Aeternas for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 69.6 Effective Tax Rate.