Location: Antioch

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Blood Running Wild of Nina Ash is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its devotion to social welfare. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 10.935 billion are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, the Environment, and Social Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 58%. 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.

All major public areas are watched by police surveillance cameras, the study of medicine is popular throughout Nina Ash, university graduates and new home-owners toil in labour camps to work off their debts, and the undead roam the streets and countryside at night (Nina Ash has found 1 easter eggs). Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nina Ash's national animal is the Lycanthropus Exterus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the moonlight.

Nina Ash is ranked 8th in Antioch and 96,686th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -29 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and