Location: the West Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Disputed Territories of Fifth Reichs is a huge, safe nation, ruled by Leader with an iron fist, and remarkable for its hatred of cheese. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 764 million 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 is mainly concerned with Law & Order, although Education and Healthcare are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Reichsfuhrerstadt. The average income tax rate is 82%, and even higher for the wealthy. 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.

Fifth Reichs's leader goes out to lunch surrounded by large men in dark glasses, the government regularly crumbles under the pressure of terrorists, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, and Leader has just been declared ruler of Fifth Reichs in an international press conference. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fifth Reichs's national animal is the Reichs Eagle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Radical Nationalist Reichsmark.

Fifth Reichs is ranked 4,106th in the West Pacific and 96,946th 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