Location: Laissez Faireholm

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Anarchocapitalist Revolution of Augarundus is a colossal, economically powerful nation, ruled by Liberateur Otto Vitali with a fair hand, and remarkable for its suspicion of poets. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 6.77 billion live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, corrupt, liberal, pro-business individuals is effectively ruled by the Department of Commerce, with areas such as Social Equality and the Environment receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Prometheus. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, followed by Uranium Mining and Information Technology.

The tenet of free speech is held dear, terrified neighbors cower behind concertina wire and machine gun nests, calling out of the blue has become taboo, and surfers ride tsunamis of record height and toxicity. Crime is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Augarundus's national animal is the Sovereign, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is The Cult of Atlas, and its currency is the Virtue.

Augarundus is ranked 2nd in Laissez Faireholm and 493rd in the world for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring 19 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and