Location: Discordia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Redacted Territories of Fnord is a massive, cultured nation, notable for its unlimited-speed roads. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.177 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, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and the Environment. The average income tax rate is 58%. 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.

Students in Fnord's schools rarely attend their classes, medical lawsuits are out of control, government officials frequently cut taxes as a distraction from antics with their secretaries, and referenda are held for every conceivable government action. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Fnord's national animal is the specter of anarchy, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Disfnordianism, and its currency is the magic bean.

Fnord is ranked 14th in Discordia and 97,843rd in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -7 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and