Location: 10000 Islands

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Underground Empire of Spudlandia is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by King Edward with an iron fist, and notable for its complete absence of social welfare. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 2.8 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 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 69%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Automobile Manufacturing industry.

Citizens must have a license to operate a computer, female newsreaders distract the nation by breastfeeding during broadcast, children are raised bilingual from an early age, and most citizens in Spudlandia are abject pyrophobes after extremely graphic pamphlets were mailed nationwide by the government. 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 1,680th in 10000 Islands and 71,510th in the world for Most Politically Free, scoring 23 on the Diebold Election Inking Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and