Location: The North Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Magic Land of Jefffliu is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Itsuki with an even hand, and remarkable for its complete absence of social welfare. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 1.755 billion enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, liberal, pro-business individuals devotes most of its attentions to Commerce, with areas such as the Environment and Religion & Spirituality receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Astral. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Automobile Manufacturing industries.

The government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments, murder rates are on the rise as the popularity of soylent products grows, penurious citizens die from easily remedied ailments because they aren't 'taking enough initiative', and bombs are permitted on planes for the 'security of the passengers'. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Jefffliu's national animal is the Mouse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Demonic eye , and its currency is the $$.

Jefffliu is ranked 610th in The North Pacific and 16,583rd in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 28 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and