Location: Absolution

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Dialland is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its hatred of cheese. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 4.108 billion are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Social Welfare, with areas such as Defence and Religion & Spirituality receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dial. The average income tax rate is 78%, and even higher for the wealthy. 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.

Nude art is becoming wildly popular, Dialland is notorious for its citizens' infidelity, the government is a clear-cut case of tyranny by majority, and most of the nation's wealthy aristocrats are dentists. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is a problem, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Dialland's national animal is the giraffe, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the dollar.

Dialland is ranked 377th in Absolution and 101,310th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -14 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and