Location: The South

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Mischievous Meerkats of Lordieth is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Lord Lordieth with a fair hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 3.996 billion are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Education, although Commerce and Social Welfare are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mystica. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 87%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, followed by Tourism and Information Technology.

It is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws, government officials are held to the highest standard of morality, mining is the nation's most dangerous occupation, and the government recently relinquished its monopoly on the mail service. Crime is totally unknown. Lordieth's national animal is the Meerkat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Sheckle.

Lordieth is ranked 54th in The South and 99,783rd in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -39 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and