Location: Loamhedge

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Godfreaks is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Godfreak with an even hand, and remarkable for its complete absence of social welfare. Its compassionate, hard-working population of 17.043 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Religion & Spirituality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Jesusfreak. 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.

Scenic mountain valleys are flooded with water as damming projects get underway, the tenet of free speech is held dear, citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits, and research into 'designer babies' is banned. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Godfreaks's national animal is the lions, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the godfreaks.

Godfreaks is ranked 2nd in Loamhedge and 1,183rd in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 37 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and