Location: The East Pacific

Overview • Factbook • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Monastic Theocracy of Fyrdowsi is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Clerical Council IX with an even hand, and remarkable for its parental licensing program. Its compassionate population of 7.516 billion are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Law & Order, although Defence and Religion & Spirituality are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Adl Justia. The average income tax rate is 99%. 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.

The government is attempting to revitalize a gutted private sector, prison visits increase substantially during election years, postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation, and hunters have been known to lose limbs while attempting to 'play tag' with their prey. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fyrdowsi's national animal is the camel, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Submissio Pacem, and its currency is the deenar.

Fyrdowsi is ranked 21st in The East Pacific and 310th in the world for Most Influential, scoring 275 on the Soft Power Disbursement Rating.

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