Location: Europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Impossible Pantisocracy of Nuweland is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Grand Duchess Helga IX with a fair hand, and notable for its unlimited-speed roads. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 14.637 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Education, although Law & Order and Religion & Spirituality are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nuwestad. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 72%. 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.

Dark alleys and public toilets are filled with furtive sexual activities among teenagers and unmarried adults, graffiti artists spend lengthy periods of time in jail, cremation is compulsory for the deceased, and it is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nuweland's national animal is the ring-tailed lemur, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Lutheran Christianity, and its currency is the euro.

Nuweland is ranked 13th in Europe and 1,202nd in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring 37 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and