Location: the West Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Federation of Liaoria is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its anti-smoking policies. Its hard-nosed, cynical population of 737 million are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Li'aor. The average income tax rate is 59%, and even higher for the wealthy. A robust private sector is led by the Information Technology industry, followed by Book Publishing and Gambling.

Long arduous trials are held for the most trivial of offences, public loudspeakers constantly tell citizens they are "happy people", the government seizes all major gold finds, and the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Liaoria's national animal is the Jaguar, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Li'rao.

Liaoria is ranked 724th in the West Pacific and 20,702nd 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