Location: 10000 Islands

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Theocracy of Nathan Figwood is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.142 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 devotes most of its attentions to Religion & Spirituality, with areas such as Defence and Social Equality receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bar-El Yerushaláyim. The average income tax rate is 61%, 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 government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments, naturists are jailed regularly for indecent exposure, Rupert Bear is considered to be the most risqué TV programme in Nathan Figwood, and refugees from other nations are flocking to Nathan Figwood's border. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nathan Figwood's national animal is the Rainbow Lorikeet, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Ecclesia Catholica Orthodoxa Evangelica, and its currency is the Shi'raz.

Nathan Figwood is ranked 1,699th in 10000 Islands and 89,056th 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