Location: Europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Federated Nations of Nordmark and Vepsland is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate population of 635 million are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Karjanisburg. The average income tax rate is 63%. A large private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

Travellers are often forcibly evicted by torch-bearing mobs, prime commercial land is being swamped with archaeological teams, children are raised bilingual from an early age, and the recently unemployed can often be seen at the local homeless shelter. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nordmark and Vepsland's national animal is the Southwestern Caribou, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Kruun.

Nordmark and Vepsland is ranked 346th in Europe and 88,416th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -21 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and