Location: Osiris

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The 31 of ------------------------------- is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Milograd with a fair hand, and renowned for its hatred of cheese. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 4.242 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, Social Equality, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Osiris. The average income tax rate is 77%, and even higher for the wealthy. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else, the people are furious with the government for allowing citizens to be executed for petty crimes in foreign countries, trespassers often find themselves impaled by crossbow bolts, and the space program has been scrapped in order to focus on more terrestrial pursuits. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. -------------------------------'s national animal is the 31, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the 31.

------------------------------- is ranked 3,023rd in Osiris and 129,780th in the world for Largest Mining Sector, scoring -11 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and