Location: Utopia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Prosimian Empire of Lustrous Lemurs is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by Leader with an iron fist, and notable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 4.782 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Law & Order, although Defence and Education are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lemuria. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 71%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology industry, followed by Arms Manufacturing and Tourism.

The nation's new foreign policy of 'very disproportionate retribution' has its neighbors on edge, Lustrous Lemurs's army is full of two-metre tall super-soldiers, police officers have been re-kitted with designer uniforms and gold plated handcuffs, and the nationalized auto industry is adept at making durable little cars nobody wants to drive. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lustrous Lemurs's national animal is the lemur, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is a major religion, and its currency is the nut.

Lustrous Lemurs is ranked 6th in Utopia and 91,249th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -22 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and