Location: Royal Federation of Nations

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Armed Republic of Javviklund is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 834 million hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Valhalla. The average income tax rate is 74%. 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.

The "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The Valhalla Times is sold out, the Javviklund Enquirer offers weekly cash prizes for 'most blasphemous song, story, or cartoon', citizens are expected to be proficient in at least five languages, and the government seeks peaceful forum with terrorists. Crime is well under control. Javviklund's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Rakii.

Javviklund is ranked 11th in Royal Federation of Nations and 93,530th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -5 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and