Location: Europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Theocracy of Nicopole is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by God with a fair hand, and notable for its national health service. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 1.625 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 is mainly concerned with Education, although Commerce and Religion & Spirituality are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pink Airport. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 71%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

Elections have become procedural nightmares due to voters persistently rejecting candidates, hunters have been known to lose limbs while attempting to 'play tag' with their prey, the government is pouring money into 'Operation Enduring Democracy', and cheese has become the new icon of political dissent. Crime is well under control. Nicopole's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Christianism, and its currency is the fish.

Nicopole is ranked 40th in Europe and 3,546th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 7 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and