Location: Balder

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Nifelvind X is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Asuka Pinke with an even hand, and remarkable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 2.737 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 72%. 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.

Anti-government web sites are springing up, televangelists flaunt their expensive cars when they attend charity events, libraries are now installed with jacuzzis and mini-bars, and the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown. Nifelvind X's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the asx.

Nifelvind X is ranked 2,347th in Balder and 90,702nd in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -4 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and