Location: mencer

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Land Ruled by The Iron Fist of Dysian is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by The MAN with a fair hand, and renowned for its national health service. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 10.708 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of the Environment, Education, and Social Welfare. The average income tax rate is 99%. 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.

The government is using tax revenues to provide jobs for the poor, citizens applying for their first jobs face fierce competition from the homeless, the nation's new foreign policy of 'very disproportionate retribution' has its neighbors on edge, and Red Cross demand for body bags are rising while sutures are decreasing. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dysian's national animal is the snake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the sard.

Dysian is ranked 3rd in mencer and 99,964th 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