Location: Canada

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Lux Aeterna of Lidyn is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Raelyn with an even hand, and notable for its hatred of cheese. Its compassionate population of 12.195 billion are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Education, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Requi. The average income tax rate is 85%, and even higher for the wealthy. 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.

Coco the Clown has been elected to the nation's parliament, glittering new sports stadiums adorn every city and town, Members of Parliament are often found living in cardboard boxes, and pollsters are out of a job as elections have been cancelled. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lidyn's national animal is the Boribati, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Nunaoism, and its currency is the Onersgard.

Lidyn is ranked 3rd in Canada and 480th in the world for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 160 on the Kitten Softness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and