Location: Wysteria

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Nak Nakian WA Embassy of Fortune1 is a gargantuan, genial nation, notable for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 18.05 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sittard. The average income tax rate is 100%. 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.

People are moving into treehouses in record numbers, Coco the Clown has been elected to the nation's parliament, Max Barry is this year's Miss Fortune1, and a government program is underway to revitalize Fortune1's beaches. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Fortune1's national animal is the Elvis, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is NakNakism, and its currency is the Storm.

Fortune1 is ranked 206th in Wysteria and 101,637th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -35 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and