Location: The Misty Realm

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The Cold chemical island state of Artic ring is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by ARC alpha 1 with an iron fist, and renowned for its ban on automobiles. Its compassionate, cynical population of 2.707 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, the Environment, and Defence. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of coolandria. The average income tax rate is 76%, and even higher for the wealthy. A large private sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry.

Citizens are regularly arrested in queues for 'loitering', heavy industry must go to expensive lengths to dispose of waste, the minority inevitably have their addenda vetoed, and notable individuals are granted land and titles. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Artic ring's national animal is the dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the sand.

Artic ring is ranked 3rd in The Misty Realm and 59,781st in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 18 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and