Location: Scotland

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Federation of Akin Trade Federations is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Overlord Tempest Maelstrom Malice with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 2.154 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Defence, although Law & Order and Commerce are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of ŞtöřmVîllé. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 94%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

The government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments, poets and writers are regularly rounded up and shot for entertainment, society and government have been organized according to a feudal hierarchy, and protests are prohibited from blocking traffic. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Akin Trade Federations's national animal is the Hammerhead Scorpion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Devout Agnosticism , and its currency is the Qwerty.

Akin Trade Federations is ranked 4th in Scotland and 2,168th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 8 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and