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Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Allied States of 9W is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by Leader with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.85 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.

The enormous, corrupt government devotes most of its attentions to Commerce, with areas such as Social Equality and the Environment receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of 9W City. The average income tax rate is 33%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining industries.

TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, welfare funding has recently gone through the roof, all new "spies" are fifteen-year-old acne-ridden kids on computers, and the nation is completely gun-free. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling. 9W's national animal is the Gazelle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is a major religion, and its currency is the Glittery Bee.

9W is ranked 1st in NationStates Congratulations Bureau and 83,356th in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 89 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and