Location: Maredoratica

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Federal Republic of The Wolf Hold is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Consul Fell with an iron fist, and remarkable for its irreverence towards religion. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 7.057 billion are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Defence, with areas such as the Environment and Religion & Spirituality receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Syzran. The average income tax rate is 69%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, followed by Uranium Mining and Gambling.

Teenagers across the country are celebrating the defeat of a national curfew bill, a weakened police force struggles to maintain law and order, roads are often attended by round-the-clock construction crews, and Wolf is one of the most popular forenames in The Wolf Hold. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Wolf Hold's national animal is the Wolf, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is the Vox Divina, and its currency is the Aurum.

The Wolf Hold is ranked 34th in Maredoratica and 91,632nd in the world for Happiest Citizens, scoring 9 on the Relative Cheerfulness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and