Location: Discordia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Massive Swelling of Erisan Dope Fiends is a colossal, economically powerful nation, ruled by Professor Mu-Chao with a fair hand, and renowned for its unlimited-speed roads. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 5.235 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Education, although Public Transport and Healthcare are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Discordja. The average income tax rate is 18%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, followed by Information Technology and Gambling.

Morning coffees are no longer the same since the disappearance of newspapers, the Supreme Court vehemently protects civil rights and the right to privacy, motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours, and new safety regulations require all cars manufactured in Erisan Dope Fiends to be bombproof. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Erisan Dope Fiends's national animal is the cockroach, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the flaxseed.

Erisan Dope Fiends is ranked 13th in Discordia and 97,003rd in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -6 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and