Location: The Hidden Mountains

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Great and Bestestest Duchy of Escyland is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by The Great Duke Ulol with an iron fist, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 18.558 billion are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Escyland City. The average income tax rate is 98%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry.

The people are famous throughout the region for their bleached-white teeth, the sound of wooden legs echo throughout Escyland after the recent introduction of the Foot Tax, manual labourers must be willing to have cybernetic limbs to get a job, and knitting needles have been banned in the name of public safety. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Escyland's national animal is the Blast ended Screwt, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Ulnogstic, and its currency is the Muffin .

Escyland is ranked 1st in The Hidden Mountains and 5,365th in the world for Healthiest Citizens, with 12 Standard Bananas Ingested per capita per day.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and