Location: Hell

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Evil Mad Scientists of Freddland is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Fredd with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 21.948 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Defence, with areas such as Social Equality and Social Welfare receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Freddville. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 27%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, followed by Uranium Mining and Gambling.

Employers are gradually adapting to the alien premise of paying wages to their workers, skateboarding is punishable by heavy fines, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, and politicians accepting drinks in bars are executed for taking bribes. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Freddland's national animal is the gorilla, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is none of the above, and its currency is the fried egg.

Freddland is ranked 40th in Hell and 20,842nd in the world for Most Authoritarian, with 1.202 Stalins.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and