Location: the South Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Empire of Airohia is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Horia with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 2.858 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 Defence, Education, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of OverCity. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 59%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology industry, followed by Book Publishing and Arms Manufacturing.

Airport security is provided by private companies, all-natural foods are becoming a major fad, motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours, and mining safety laws are often more expensive than what's being mined. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Airohia's national animal is the The mods say I may not use humans as animal or currency, or use my custom fields to troll or be obscene, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the The mods say I may not use humans as animal or currency, or use my custom fields to troll or be obscene.

Airohia is ranked 202nd in the South Pacific and 7,895th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 4 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and