Location: Lazarus

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Empire of Dhan is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Daniel the First and the Last with an even hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 3.027 billion are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

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 Healthcare and Social Equality are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lynaad. The average income tax rate is 77%, and even higher for the wealthy. A robust private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, the 'kind of scrawny' 500 meter hurdle is a popular event, political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations, and people are now classified as male, female, or genderqueer. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dhan's national animal is the raven, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the dann.

Dhan is ranked 3,069th in Lazarus and 91,855th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -4 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and