Location: Balder

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Interdimensional Superpower of Demonic Software Developers is a massive, socially progressive nation, notable for its museums and concert halls. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.1 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 is mainly concerned with Education, although Social Welfare and Healthcare are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Abyss. The average income tax rate is 88%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology industry, followed by Tourism and Automobile Manufacturing.

Demonic Software Developers Barrier Island residents anxiously await their 'Bridge to Somewhere', teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, students cut up leftover linuxs during Arts and Crafts, 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. Demonic Software Developers's national animal is the human, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the linux.

Demonic Software Developers is ranked 2,418th in Balder and 93,125th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -5 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and