Location: The North Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Oppressed Peoples of New Randallia is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Friend Randall with an iron fist, and notable for its ban on automobiles. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.165 billion are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The government -- a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt morass -- juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Religion & Spirituality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Barking Squid. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 30%. 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 is attempting to impose a new national language on the public, the government is making attempts at curtailing the flood of spam emails with little progress, Max Barry is this year's Miss New Randallia, and bloodthirsty zealots regularly participate in the Friday Night Stoning of Adulterers. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Randallia's national animal is the Stag, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Randallism, and its currency is the Rando.

New Randallia is ranked 4,340th in The North Pacific and 94,081st in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -5 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and