Location: Fredonia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Phantasm of Afi-Aftos is a gargantuan, devout nation, ruled by El Guapo with an iron fist, and remarkable for its unlimited-speed roads. Its hard-nosed, cynical population of 20.366 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Commerce, Law & Order, and Defence. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dreck City. The average income tax rate is 24%, but much higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Uranium Mining industry.

The lowest age at which one can marry has been recently lowered to 12, innocent people are routinely stoned to death by frenzied lynch mobs, the government enforces a policy of 'from each according to their ability, to each according to the available budget', and homosexuality is a crime punishable by death. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Afi-Aftos's national animal is the Vermicious Knid, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Dudeism, and its currency is the Fishterous Correlation.

Afi-Aftos is ranked 1st in Fredonia and 100,854th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -10 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and