Location: Nederland

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Lush Empire of Ferila is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Rena Loran with an iron fist, and notable for its keen interest in outer space. Its compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 2.879 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Taka Shi. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 70%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry.

Small businesses are gobbled up almost daily by corporate giants, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, motels cater primarily to adulterers, 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. Ferila's national animal is the Hawk, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Riza.

Ferila is ranked 73rd in Nederland and 77,256th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -2 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and