Location: SideWalk Zone

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Colony of Isle of the Vatican is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Jay Myers with an even hand, and renowned for its parental licensing program. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 2.349 billion are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, moralistic government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vatican. The average income tax rate is 99%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Tourism industry, followed by Woodchip Exports and Book Publishing.

Cats are becoming popular in pet stores nationwide, small businesses are gobbled up almost daily by corporate giants, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, and drug distribution is tightly controlled by the government. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Isle of the Vatican's national animal is the cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Christianity, and its currency is the Platinum Dollar.

Isle of the Vatican is ranked 1st in SideWalk Zone and 1,697th in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 34 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and