Location: the West Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The People's Republic of Autoimmune Deficiency Syndrome is a huge, socially progressive nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 660 million are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded individuals juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Commerce, and Defence. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of No Girls Allowed. The average income tax rate is 1%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Uranium Mining, Retail, and Gambling industries.

The government extracts trade concessions from poor nations in exchange for humanitarian aid, 'A is for Annulment' is a popular children's song, newspapers cannot report anything about politicians without their explicit consent, and new safety regulations require all cars manufactured in Autoimmune Deficiency Syndrome to be bombproof. Crime is crippling. Autoimmune Deficiency Syndrome's national animal is the Decline by NOFX, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the Rape Coin.

Autoimmune Deficiency Syndrome is ranked 1,322nd in the West Pacific and 33,431st 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