Location: Taijitu

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Raptor Worshipers of Dorrick 2 is a colossal, safe nation, renowned for its anti-smoking policies. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 8.998 billion are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

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, Law & Order, and Defence. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ca$hville. The average income tax rate is 64%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing industries.

Marketing departments of corporate giants compete to sponsor little league teams, toddlers are wielding machine guns in the name of national defense, the lowest age at which one can marry has been recently lowered to 12, and Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dorrick 2's national animal is the 1000ft Raptor, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Money, and its currency is the Tally.

Dorrick 2 is ranked 5th in Taijitu and 1,647th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 9 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and