Location: Wysteria

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Holiest Of The Holy Lands of Deep south Borland is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by His Supreme Holy Eminence with an even hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate population of 19.378 billion are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Religion & Spirituality, the Environment, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sacrosanct City. The average income tax rate is 100%. 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.

Hairdressers are among those who have disappeared overnight, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings, and religious classes are compulsory for all school students. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Deep south Borland's national animal is the Lamb, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is The Truest Fairy Tale Ever, and its currency is the Sacrament.

Deep south Borland is ranked 41st in Wysteria and 17,896th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 28 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and