Location: Uroca

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Ho-hum What Should I Do Now of Imperfectia is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Jonathan Noble with an even hand, and notable for its ban on automobiles. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 10.515 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 concentrates mainly on Education, although Commerce and Defence are on the agenda. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Retail industries.

The streets are plagued with knife-wielding madmen, thousands of former welfare recipients are in a revolutionary uproar as the rest of society is enjoying a hefty tax break, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, and the fire protection service is wholly government-funded. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Imperfectia's national animal is the field mouse, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the DOCA.

Imperfectia is ranked 2nd in Uroca and 1,691st in the world for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring 43 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and