Location: The North Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Condominium of Moldavian Territories is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by the Supreme with an even hand, and renowned for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.841 billion are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Chişinău. The average income tax rate is 93%, 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.

The populace harbors a fierce hatred of the metric system, the people elect the Supreme Court justices directly, midnight raids drag couples from their homes in the name of decency, and police officers have been re-kitted with designer uniforms and gold plated handcuffs. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Moldavian Territories's national animal is the auroch, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Orthodoxism, and its currency is the lei.

Moldavian Territories is ranked 4,404th in The North Pacific and 96,828th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -29 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and