Location: Judea

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Walking Apocalypse of Ustio North is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Chancellor Alyx Graystone with a fair hand, and renowned for its compulsory military service. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 8.742 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Social Welfare, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Austresium. The average income tax rate is 90%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

The nation is ravaged by daily union strikes, Ustio North successfully hosted the Judea Olympics, every citizen must submit to DNA testing to be eliminated from police inquiries, and the nation has welcomed its expats back with open arms. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ustio North's national animal is the Owl, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Catholicism, and its currency is the Dollar.

Ustio North is ranked 19th in Judea and 77,695th in the world for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -3 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and