Location: the Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Green Eco-Heroes of DeMarci is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Snuffleupagus with a fair hand, and notable for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 5.698 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 Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tree 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.

Euthanasia is legal, the nation is ravaged by daily union strikes, anti-government political posters adorn every building like wallpaper, and midnight pizza breaks are common among the work-from-home population. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. DeMarci's national animal is the Veggie Monster, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Tofu.

DeMarci is ranked 4,117th in the Pacific and 101,431st in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -17 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and