Location: the South Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Kingdom of Dragon Holy Land is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 931 million enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Education, although Law & Order and Public Transport are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Charizard Central. The average income tax rate is 69%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology industry, followed by Book Publishing and Basket Weaving.

Voting is voluntary, the government is spending millions on alternative clean-burning fuels, vanity is considered the eighth cardinal virtue, and the art of conversation has been rediscovered. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is moderate, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Dragon Holy Land's national animal is the White Siberian Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Fang.

Dragon Holy Land is ranked 3,971st in the South Pacific and 79,750th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -2 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and