Location: Cental Pacific Archipelago

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Awesomium of New Youland is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, ruled by Supreme Overlord Me with an iron fist, and renowned for its complete absence of social welfare. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 10.103 billion are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Defence, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Social Welfare receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New New You. The average income tax rate is 92%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology industry, followed by Arms Manufacturing and Uranium Mining.

Every citizen must submit to DNA testing to be eliminated from police inquiries, murder rates are on the rise as the popularity of soylent products grows, military spending is on the increase, and only 'organics' are permitted to be citizens. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Youland's national animal is the knarf, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Awesomism, and its currency is the fol.

New Youland is ranked 1st in Cental Pacific Archipelago and 929th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 11 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and