Location: Yggdrasil

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Commonwealth of Isiltar is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Sashimi McCumberbund with a fair hand, and remarkable for its happy-go-lucky citizens. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 3.639 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Defence, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Isiltar City. The average income tax rate is 43%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

The government has instituted 'traveller reservations' across the country, anti-government web sites are springing up, the "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The Isiltar City Times is sold out, and government-run screening operations remove embryos with severe genetic disorders. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Isiltar's national animal is the marmoset, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the huleru.

Isiltar is ranked 29th in Yggdrasil and 10,576th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 3 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and