Location: CDW Federation

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Zombie Matrix of Absentia is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by You with a fair hand, and renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 21.854 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, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Education, with areas such as Defence and Social Welfare receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Middle of Nowhere. The average income tax rate is 81%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry.

The government is reining in public spending, the airship business has been driven out of the country by strict regulations and high fines, main battle tanks stalk the woods of Absentia in search of Zombie cambots, and the nation is ravaged by daily union strikes. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Absentia's national animal is the Zombie cambot, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the almighty erg.

Absentia is ranked 1st in CDW Federation and 1,297th in the world for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 210 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and