Location: The North Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Democratic States of Doomsday is a massive, economically powerful nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.104 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Equality, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Awesomevil. The average income tax rate is 79%, 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.

Max Barry is this year's Miss Doomsday, citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits, young children are regularly seen wagering pocket money at blackjack tables, and all judiciary cases are decided in the court of public opinion. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Doomsday's national animal is the polar bear, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the sex.

Doomsday is ranked 4,420th in The North Pacific and 96,264th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -6 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and