Location: the West Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Commonwealth of Grumpyvilla is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Grumble with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service. Its compassionate, cynical population of 1.379 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Grumpyvilla City. The average income tax rate is 68%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

Torture is illegal, protesters against the government are hanged as a warning to others, Grumpyvilla is notorious for its citizens' infidelity, and the government props up questionable pizza establishments in the name of health. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Grumpyvilla's national animal is the Griffon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Grump.

Grumpyvilla is ranked 1,694th in the West Pacific and 41,816th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and