Location: 10000 Islands

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United Kingdom of Nuggsrocks is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Nuggs with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 4.273 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 Equality, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Qwerty. The average income tax rate is 83%, 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.

Schoolchildren have twice-weekly sex education classes, tombstones are ten feet high to accommodate the names of inhabitants, the roads are virtually falling apart, and scenic mountain valleys are flooded with water as damming projects get underway. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nuggsrocks's national animal is the asdf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Taoism, and its currency is the yuiop.

Nuggsrocks is ranked 1,974th in 10000 Islands and 97,576th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -31 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and