Location: Great Britain and Ireland

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The British Citizen of Onderkelkia2 is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion. Its hard-working, cynical population of 10 billion are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Commerce, Law & Order, and Public Transport. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 38%. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Automobile Manufacturing.

Programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours, there have been reports of people marrying housepets, flash floods that dams could have controlled regularly ravage small towns in mountain valleys, and traffic jams are a common sight due to construction work from a massive overhaul of the nation's freeways. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is moderate. Onderkelkia2's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Pound.

Onderkelkia2 is ranked 10th in Great Britain and Ireland and 73,873rd in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -15 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and