Location: Europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Grand Duchy of Nomaida is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by a Doge with a fair hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 7.714 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 the Environment, Education, and Social Equality. The average income tax rate is 100%. 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.

Legislators work 24/7 due to an influx of single-issue bills, there's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt, the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one, and the number of students attending university has reached a record high. Crime is totally unknown. Nomaida's national animal is the Giant Eland, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the pound sterling.

Nomaida is ranked 513th in Europe and 101,427th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -90 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and