Location: Osiris

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Empire of Nicoletta is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Leader with a fair hand, and notable for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.557 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded 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 Nicoletta City. The average income tax rate is 72%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, followed by Tourism and Automobile Manufacturing.

Inheritance tax has recently been abolished, an underground movement of cigarette smokers has sprung up in response to a government ban, the upper class have been throwing riots after hunting was recently banned, and local executives are seen on the corner with cardboard signs reading "will oppress the masses for food". Crime -- especially youth-related -- is a serious problem, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Nicoletta's national animal is the Feathered Minx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Roald.

Nicoletta is ranked 685th in Osiris and 34,052nd in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 23 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and