Location: Osiris

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Dictatorship of Dwonspun is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Leader with an even hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space. Its compassionate population of 2.917 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

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 the Environment. The average income tax rate is 42%, but much higher for the wealthy. A healthy private sector is led by the Uranium Mining, Cheese Exports, and Tourism industries.

The 'kind of scrawny' 500 meter hurdle is a popular event, shanty towns are forming in the suburbs of major cities, a ban on unsolicited cold calling in all forms is in effect, and the airship business has been driven out of the country by strict regulations and high fines. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown. Dwonspun's national animal is the monkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the mon.

Dwonspun is ranked 1,065th in Osiris and 46,282nd in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 135 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and