Location: Wysteria

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Rogue Nation of Iconoclastic Recalcitrant Autodidacts is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by Jack Henry Faust with a fair hand, and renowned for its unlimited-speed roads. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 1.789 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cydonia. The average income tax rate is 67%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Book Publishing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture industries.

Artists are pillars of society, young children are regularly seen wagering pocket money at blackjack tables, nervous homeowners have been blamed for rising death rates amongst carol singers and locksmiths, and the police have been reduced to using duct tape instead of handcuffs following further cutbacks. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is a problem, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Iconoclastic Recalcitrant Autodidacts's national animal is the Golden Lion Tamarin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the Wright.

Iconoclastic Recalcitrant Autodidacts is ranked 148th in Wysteria and 81,926th 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