Location: Alberta

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Inaccessible Cliff Nest of Alroc is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Warlord Hawkblade with a fair hand, and remarkable for its parental licensing program. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 5.812 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.

The tiny government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Skavenblight. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry.

Women earn less than half the salary of men if they can even find a job, all streets are privately owned toll roads, teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, and violently opinionated speakers can be heard preaching their hateful views on every street corner. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alroc's national animal is the gnawbite rat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the warpstone token.

Alroc is ranked 3rd in Alberta and 2,880th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 7 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and