Location: Wysteria

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Sleepy Floaty Isles of Dienes is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by a lonely baker with a fair hand, and renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 18.666 billion live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Commerce, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hope. The average income tax rate is 72%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, followed by Tourism and Information Technology.

Laws are littered with references to cheese, city sidewalks are crowded with overweight people, the government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments, and manual labourers must be willing to have cybernetic limbs to get a job. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dienes's national animal is the Teddy Bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is watermelon juggling, and its currency is the Unicycle.

Dienes is ranked 139th in Wysteria and 124,534th in the world for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring -29 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and