Location: South Figaro

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Limit of Greater Reykjavik is a massive, genial nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its compassionate, cynical population of 1.879 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Religion & Spirituality, Law & Order, and Commerce. The average income tax rate is 26%, but much higher for the wealthy. A large private sector is led by the Uranium Mining industry, followed by Door-to-door Insurance Sales and Arms Manufacturing.

Citizens are frequently held up at gunpoint by their local pizza delivery boys, rumours have it that a secret police is responsible for the recent spate of missing persons, property values in suburbs have nosedived after the middle class were forced to live next door to ethnic minorities, and a large concrete wall is being built around the country's borders. Crime is relatively low, thanks to a well-funded police force. Greater Reykjavik's national animal is the Polar Bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the Euro.

Greater Reykjavik is ranked 37th in South Figaro and 25,912th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 2 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and