Location: Europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Psyhedelic G S Hillbillies of GowgandaOdandayo is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Steve Zisou with a fair hand, and notable for its national health service. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 5.145 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cucuruz. The average income tax rate is 81%, and even higher for the wealthy. A robust private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

GowgandaOdandayo is notorious for its citizens' infidelity, Red Eyed Foxs have more rights than the average citizen, local executives are seen on the corner with cardboard signs reading "will oppress the masses for food", and most of the nation's wealthy aristocrats are dentists. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. GowgandaOdandayo's national animal is the Red Eyed Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Religion is silly, and its currency is the Cacati.

GowgandaOdandayo is ranked 381st in Europe and 89,083rd in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -4 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and