Location: 10000 Islands

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Underground Empire of Spudlandia is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by King Edward with a fair hand, and renowned for its irreverence towards religion. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 3.458 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Solanum Tuberosum. The average income tax rate is 80%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Automobile Manufacturing industry.

Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity, most citizens in Spudlandia are abject pyrophobes after extremely graphic pamphlets were mailed nationwide by the government, UFO sightings are listed daily in the morning news, and the military frequently holds bake sales to raise funds. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spudlandia's national animal is the Roastie, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Hash Brownism, and its currency is the Dauphinoise.

Spudlandia is ranked 983rd in 10000 Islands and 21,516th in the world for Most Influential, scoring 20 on the Soft Power Disbursement Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and