Location: the South Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Disloved Rock Bands is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Mr Mohawk with an even hand, and notable for its hatred of cheese. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 6.89 billion enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of the Environment, Education, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Crazy Town. The average income tax rate is 82%, 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.

Prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators, pharmacies close down as medicinal drugs are sold freely by the government, there's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt, and children are raised bilingual from an early age. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Disloved Rock Bands's national animal is the Dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the circle thing.

Disloved Rock Bands is ranked 21st in the South Pacific and 730th in the world for Best Weather, with 333 Metres of Sunlight Above Expected.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and