Location: Yorkshire

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Grandma's in charge of Wetwang on the Wolds is a gargantuan, devout nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 18.339 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Social Welfare, and the Environment. The average income tax rate is 96%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

The public are free to vote for whomever the government wants in office, murderers frequently escape punishment by claiming they were protecting their honour, elections have been outlawed, and the people elect the Supreme Court justices directly. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wetwang on the Wolds's national animal is the Mischief, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Slightly Pink Pound.

Wetwang on the Wolds is ranked 21st in Yorkshire and 86,473rd in the world for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 0 on the Gilded Widget Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and