Location: Europeia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Federated Districts of N-wton is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Max McQuire with a fair hand, and notable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 3.037 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Verdeton. The average income tax rate is 71%, 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 Book Publishing.

Prisoners work-share to cut down rising costs of keeping them in jail, Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity, religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else, and the government is giving peace a chance. Crime is totally unknown. N-wton's national animal is the kophka, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the osmid.

N-wton is ranked 1,119th in Europeia and 89,588th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -4 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and