Location: Utopia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Free Land of Namportu is a massive, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.267 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

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 Belleville. The average income tax rate is 91%, 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.

Radio shows frequently feature people denouncing religion, nude art is becoming wildly popular, truth is often impossible to tell from fiction on the evening news, and it is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws. Crime is relatively low. Namportu's national animal is the lark, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is the Cult of the Supreme Being, and its currency is the dollar.

Namportu is ranked 10th in Utopia and 99,529th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -8 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and