Location: Antarctic Oasis

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The State Security Apparatus of Iron Felix is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 13.272 billion are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Defence, although Law & Order and Commerce are secondary priorities. The average income tax rate is 96%. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Arms Manufacturing.

All news sources are under strict government control, politicians accepting drinks in bars are executed for taking bribes, record sales of 'child-whacking sticks' have been recorded, and shaken martini sales have soared in nations surrounding Iron Felix. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Iron Felix's national animal is the UN Gnome, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the New Yeldan Pound .

Iron Felix is ranked 11th in Antarctic Oasis and 2,850th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 7 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and