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 restrictive gun laws. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 12.808 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, 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 83%, 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.

Citizens are frequently searched for illegal weapons, postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation, schools have extensive counseling programs for troubled students, and the nation is currently revamping its entire education system. 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 171st in Canada and 101,252nd in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -12 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and