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The United Corporations of Norstal is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Director Gregoire with a fair hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 11.263 billion are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Education, although Commerce and Law & Order are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Coberg. The average income tax rate is 80%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology industry, followed by Gambling and Book Publishing.

City rooftops are pockmarked with the shattered remains of experimental delivery drones, the government has instituted 'traveller reservations' across the country, the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit, and government officials have to mortgage their homes to make ends meet. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Norstal's national animal is the swan, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Universalism, and its currency is the Standardized Norse.

Norstal is ranked 81st in Ankh Mauta and 130,664th in the world for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring -395 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and