Location: the Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Empire of Narcolepsy is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its anti-smoking policies. Its cynical population of 714 million are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lucid City. The average income tax rate is 73%. A robust private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, followed by Door-to-door Insurance Sales and Trout Farming.

The new 'Things We Stole From Other Countries' exhibition at the National Museum of Antiquities is a hit, an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, and guns are banned. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Narcolepsy's national animal is the mongoose, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the nrem.

Narcolepsy is ranked 271st in the Pacific and 10,874th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 3 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and