Location: California

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Operating Room of House M D is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by Dr House with a fair hand, and renowned for its parental licensing program. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 4.173 billion enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Commerce, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Princeton-Plainsboro. The average income tax rate is 19%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Automobile Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Tourism industries.

Cyber-crime and tin-foil hat sales are both increasing at record rates, major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day, senior citizens can usually be found doing heavy manual labour, and fur coats have become the latest fashion trend. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. House M D's national animal is the patient, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the hydrocodone tablet.

House M D is ranked 6th in California and 6,316th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 5 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and