Location: Lazarus

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United Confederate Union of Nercer - is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by President Nathan Ossetia with a fair hand, and renowned for its absence of drug laws. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 11.079 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Equality, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Troy. The average income tax rate is 72%. 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.

Rag-wearing teachers are often mistaken for homeless people, the "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The Troy Times is sold out, unstable couples are known to break up over which one gets parental leave, and the government is giving peace a chance. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nercer -'s national animal is the Wolf, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Dollar.

Nercer - is ranked 3,433rd in Lazarus and 98,209th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -6 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and