Location: Hampshire

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Fair Domain of Drumtroddan is a massive, safe nation, ruled by High King Bridei XV with a fair hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 4.486 billion 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 Social Equality and the Environment are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cruggleton. The average income tax rate is 69%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Unstable couples are known to break up over which one gets parental leave, a well-funded social safety net protects the unfortunate, long arduous trials are held for the most trivial of offences, and the lowest age at which one can marry has been recently lowered to 12. Crime is well under control, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Drumtroddan's national animal is the German Shepherd, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Thaler.

Drumtroddan is ranked 7th in Hampshire and 10,261st in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 4 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and