Location: The North Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Fairly Well-Liked Dominion of Blackshear41 is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Sir Irixis with a fair hand, and notable for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 3.391 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, Social Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Irixinia. The average income tax rate is 78%, and even higher for the wealthy. A substantial private sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry.

Members of Parliament are often found living in cardboard boxes, roads are often attended by round-the-clock construction crews, televangelists flaunt their expensive cars when they attend charity events, and prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Blackshear41's national animal is the seawolverine, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the sirixii.

Blackshear41 is ranked 3,952nd in The North Pacific and 83,522nd 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