Location: Kyzikos

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The 24 of ------------------------ is a massive, socially progressive nation, renowned for its strong anti-business politics. Its hard-nosed population of 2.049 billion are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Education. The average income tax rate is 45%, but much higher for the wealthy. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Arms Manufacturing.

Otherwise healthy people are being sent to internment camps because they have VODAIS, elections have become procedural nightmares due to voters persistently rejecting candidates, the study of medicine is popular throughout ------------------------, and the government is avowedly atheist. Crime is moderate. ------------------------'s national animal is the 24, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the 24.

------------------------ is ranked 107th in Kyzikos and 36,418th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 2 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and