Location: Hyrule

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Land That is Now Diamonds of Nosyaj is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its ban on automobiles. Its compassionate population of 16.144 billion 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 is mainly concerned with the Environment, although Education and Religion & Spirituality are secondary priorities. The average income tax rate is 80%, and even higher for the wealthy. 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.

Citizens are frequently searched for illegal weapons, healthcare funding has been cut, the world outside is only known of in folklore, and an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nosyaj's national animal is the badass monkey eagle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the gald.

Nosyaj is ranked 23rd in Hyrule and 97,325th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -30 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and