Location: Lazarus

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Constitutional Monarchy of A3161 is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Doc with a fair hand, and remarkable for its unlimited-speed roads. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 8.284 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Education, although the Environment and Law & Order are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bigburg. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 41%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

There have been sightings of people walking around dressed in nothing but leopard-skin g-strings for 'religious reasons', A3161 is notorious for its citizens' infidelity, employers may fire workers without giving any reason, and political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. A3161's national animal is the vizsla, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the bisc.

A3161 is ranked 1,467th in Lazarus and 43,304th 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