Location: Hampshire

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Mining Colony of Nachtenwald is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Lord Ulrich Brandt with a fair hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 6.297 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Education, although Social Welfare and Social Equality are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nachtenwald City. The average income tax rate is 96%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Tourism industry, followed by Book Publishing and Gambling.

The state pays for care of easily preventable illnesses, there have been sightings of people walking around dressed in nothing but leopard-skin g-strings for 'religious reasons', the government pours millions of Ebons into rehabilitation programs annually, and surveillance cameras are banned. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nachtenwald's national animal is the Ebon Drake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Aetherism, and its currency is the Ebon.

Nachtenwald is ranked 67th in Hampshire and 93,353rd in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -5 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and