Location: Quebec

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Communes of Nouvelle Occitanie is a massive, socially progressive nation, renowned for its unlimited-speed roads. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 4.839 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nova Marsella. The average income tax rate is 72%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity, condemned prisoners spend hours a day sitting in lotus position looking perplexed, students are known to arrive at school in their pyjamas, and most citizens in Nouvelle Occitanie are abject pyrophobes after extremely graphic pamphlets were mailed nationwide by the government. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is a serious problem, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Nouvelle Occitanie's national animal is the Gall d'or, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Franko oksita.

Nouvelle Occitanie is ranked 12th in Quebec and 69,749th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -14 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and