Location: Iran

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Democratic States of Mahmoud Asgari is a massive, safe nation, notable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 3.846 billion are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Social Welfare, with areas such as Law & Order and Defence receiving almost no funds by comparison. The average income tax rate is 59%, and even higher for the wealthy. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Cheese Exports.

Re-education centers are being added to most prisons, heavy industry must go to expensive lengths to dispose of waste, there's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt, and government-run screening operations remove embryos with severe genetic disorders. Crime is well under control. Mahmoud Asgari's national animal is the Tartar, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the hermaphrodite.

Mahmoud Asgari is ranked 45th in Iran and 76,880th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -16 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and