Location: the Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Virtual Reality of Anozia is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Anothelead with a fair hand, and notable for its ban on automobiles. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 3.517 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of AnoTheCore. The average income tax rate is 68%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry.

A weakened police force struggles to maintain law and order, pharmacies close down as medicinal drugs are sold freely by the government, UFO sightings are listed daily in the morning news, and the wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Anozia's national animal is the dragon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is the Way, and its currency is the credit.

Anozia is ranked 3,602nd in the Pacific and 84,059th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -3 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and