Location: The Aster Palace

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Sovereignity of Berzerkirs is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Dall Grande Jentillak with an iron fist, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space. Its compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 10.019 billion are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Religion & Spirituality, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aran. The average income tax rate is 99%. A very small private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

Only vaccinated citizens may have free healthcare, phone taps are frequently carried out by the police, pharmacies close down as medicinal drugs are sold freely by the government, and the government spends millions of Roka Naxs every year prosecuting spammers. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Berzerkirs's national animal is the Baxr Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Christianity, and its currency is the Roka Nax.

Berzerkirs is ranked 1st in The Aster Palace and 1,328th in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 34 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and