Location: Lazarus

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Federal Republic of Guajiranda is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its complete absence of social welfare. Its compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 628 million are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 12%. A large private sector is led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, followed by Gambling and Arms Manufacturing.

Protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations, teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, skateparks can be found in every city, and politicians are losing their jobs in a plan to make the government 'leaner and fitter'. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is a problem. Guajiranda's national animal is the Mendote , which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the Colon .

Guajiranda is ranked 641st in Lazarus and 25,906th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 25 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and