Location: Funen

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Rickroll Republic of Alternative Rickroll is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Rick Astley with a fair hand, and renowned for its irreverence towards religion. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 6.846 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 is mainly concerned with Education, although Law & Order and Public Transport are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rick-o-polis. The average income tax rate is 14%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Tourism, Gambling, and Furniture Restoration industries.

Reporters often lose their jobs over fact-checking errors, recruitment posters proclaim the army to be both fabulous and fashionable, cars speed down national highways while drivers sleep at the wheel, and the Supreme Court vehemently protects civil rights and the right to privacy. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is a major problem, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Alternative Rickroll's national animal is the 78 speed lps, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is a major religion, and its currency is the dollar.

Alternative Rickroll is ranked 9th in Funen and 75,984th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -2 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and