Location: Europeia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Confederacy of Dead Scientists is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Leonardo Hieronymus Albrecht Newton with a fair hand, and notable for its parental licensing program. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.606 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Feynman City. The average income tax rate is 98%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Midnight pizza breaks are common among the work-from-home population, reporters often lose their jobs over fact-checking errors, the 'kind of scrawny' 500 meter hurdle is a popular event, and students cut up leftover Credits during Arts and Crafts. Crime is totally unknown. Dead Scientists's national animal is the Dodo , which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Credit.

Dead Scientists is ranked 1,301st in Europeia and 99,884th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -9 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and