Location: Antarctica

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Water Bottles are Full of H2SO4 is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Leader with an iron fist, and remarkable for its hatred of cheese. Its compassionate, cynical population of 20.08 billion are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Floor 229. The average income tax rate is 100%. 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.

Midnight raids drag couples from their homes in the name of decency, the wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned, strategic bombers are being converted into preschools, and most citizens in H2SO4 are abject pyrophobes after extremely graphic pamphlets were mailed nationwide by the government. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. H2SO4's national animal is the Thai Chicken, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is a major religion, and its currency is the Leon Jackson CD.

H2SO4 is ranked 100th in Antarctica and 101,641st in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -38 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and