Location: Funen

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Mega-Great People's Republic of New Ferrium is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Big Brother Winston Smith with an iron fist, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, cynical population of 8.947 billion are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Religion & Spirituality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Airstrip One. The average income tax rate is 99%. 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.

Citizens live in superstitious fear of the mysterious glowing clouds that float over New Ferrium, newspapers cannot report anything about politicians without their explicit consent, vets have been drafted in to help "fix" those who fail the parental license exam, and bloodthirsty zealots regularly participate in the Friday Night Stoning of Adulterers. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. New Ferrium's national animal is the Comrade Ferrium Bird, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is outlawed as are others, and its currency is the Dollar Readjusto.

New Ferrium is ranked 25th in Funen and 100,635th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -9 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and