Location: Europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Grand Duchy of Dauershire is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its unlimited-speed roads. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 15.06 billion are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The enormous government devotes most of its attentions to Education, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Defence receiving almost no funds by comparison. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Military funding has been stripped back, students are wary of colorfully decorated new teachers with names like Professor Pipsqueak, the people are famous throughout the region for their bleached-white teeth, and electrocution deaths among computer technicians are at an all-time high. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling. Dauershire's national animal is the lynx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the euro.

Dauershire is ranked 491st in Europe and 87,379th in the world for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring -53 on the Kitten Softness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and