Location: Kyzikos

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The 24 of ------------------------ is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by West-Flanders with an iron fist, and notable for its keen interest in outer space. Its hard-nosed, cynical population of 4.25 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, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Defence, although Law & Order and Education are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Belgium. The average income tax rate is 71%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry.

The government is spending billions of taxpayer 24s to support the Information Technology industry, rumours have it that a secret police is responsible for the recent spate of missing persons, military spending is on the increase, and ------------------------'s army is full of two-metre tall super-soldiers. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ------------------------'s national animal is the 24, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the 24.

------------------------ is ranked 235th in Kyzikos and 86,044th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 14 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and