Location: 10000 Islands

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Scars of Ad Infinitum is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Chancellor with a fair hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 16.83 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Education, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Doofania. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 78%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

Surveillance cameras are banned, recruitment posters proclaim the army to be both fabulous and fashionable, Ad Infinitum is notorious for its citizens' infidelity, and crowds of flag-burning protesters tend to accidentally become crowds of burning protesters. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Ad Infinitum's national animal is the possum, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Seventh-Day Foxhole Agnostic, and its currency is the ice.

Ad Infinitum is ranked 1,973rd in 10000 Islands and 93,672nd in the world for Happiest Citizens, scoring 9 on the Relative Cheerfulness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and