Location: Canada

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Occupying Forces of Farfel the Dog is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Oberfuhrer Buck Landslide with an iron fist, and renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 9.29 billion are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Law & Order, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Social Welfare receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Deadkitty . The average income tax rate is 97%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

Red Cross demand for body bags are rising while sutures are decreasing, prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators, government-run screening operations remove embryos with severe genetic disorders, and toddlers are wielding machine guns in the name of national defense. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Farfel the Dog's national animal is the cybernetic schnauzer, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is The Church of Sciencolliegee, and its currency is the Chewtoy.

Farfel the Dog is ranked 138th in Canada and 94,633rd in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -5 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and