Location: 10000 Islands

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Royal Lands of Asherak is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by King Asher the Just with an iron fist, and notable for its keen interest in outer space. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.643 billion are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Defence, although Education and the Environment are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wintermare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 72%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

The government is avowedly atheist, schools have extensive counseling programs for troubled students, new safety regulations require all cars manufactured in Asherak to be bombproof, and thousands of former welfare recipients are in a revolutionary uproar as the rest of society is enjoying a hefty tax break. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Asherak's national animal is the Winterwolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Aezure.

Asherak is ranked 1,373rd in 10000 Islands and 78,572nd 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