Location: Europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Grand Duchy of Dauershire is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, notable for its complete absence of social welfare. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 15.667 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 medium-sized, pro-business 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.

Businesses often fire workers in favour of cheaper automatic systems, the nanny industry has had a boom after maternity leave was recently banned, Lynx is one of the most popular forenames in Dauershire, and disaster victims are viewed with disdain. 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 46th in Europe and 3,967th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 6 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and