Location: Scandinavia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Mostly Insignificant Nation of Ioavollr is a gargantuan, genial nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 12.597 billion are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of the Environment, Education, and Social Welfare. 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.

Ioavollr has one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world, the government is giving peace a chance, legislators work 24/7 due to an influx of single-issue bills, and artists are pillars of society. Crime is totally unknown. Ioavollr's national animal is the Kodiak, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the ISSP Credit.

Ioavollr is ranked 93rd in Scandinavia and 101,464th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -17 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and