Location: Social Liberal Union

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Elemental Tribes of Afen is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Kaiser Andrew with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 5.197 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

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 Social Equality are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Afen City. The average income tax rate is 85%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

Annulments are on the rise as couples discover their ancestors were born in the same hospitals, the "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The Afen City Times is sold out, political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations, and tourists outnumber citizens two to one. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Afen's national animal is the Wolfdog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Jindi, and its currency is the Olymp.

Afen is ranked 106th in Social Liberal Union and 56,206th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 0 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and